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U.S. withdraws from U.N. cultural company over ‘divisive social and cultural causes’
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U.S. withdraws from U.N. cultural company over ‘divisive social and cultural causes’

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published July 22, 2025
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An image taken on Oct. 12, 2017 exhibits the brand of the United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris.

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The Trump administration will withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations Academic, Scientific and Cultural Group (UNESCO) — about two years after the U.S. rejoined the group below Biden.

The company focuses on selling worldwide collaboration in schooling, science and tradition. It is best recognized for its record of World Heritage websites, which acknowledge locations with cultural or pure significance.

Orango National Park on the Bijagós Archipelago off of the coast of Guinea-Bissau is a newly designated World Heritage Site.

On Tuesday, U.S. State Division spokesperson Tammy Bruce stated in a assertion that involvement in UNESCO is “not in the national interest of the United States,” accusing the U.N. company of advancing “divisive social and cultural causes.”

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO’s director common, stated the choice was disappointing however anticipated. In response to Azoulay, the withdrawal will take impact on the finish of 2026.

“This decision contradicts the fundamental principles of multilateralism, and may affect first and foremost our many partners in the United States of America — communities seeking site inscription on the World Heritage List, Creative City status, and University Chairs,” Azoulay stated in a press launch.

UNESCO has 194 member states and oversees greater than 1,200 World Heritage websites — 26 of that are situated within the U.S., together with the Statue of Liberty, Yosemite Nationwide Park and Grand Canyon Nationwide Park. Websites which are added to the World Heritage record achieve entry to worldwide funding to assist with safety and conservation.

Among the many causes Bruce gave for the choice to withdraw from UNESCO, have been the group’s “outsized focus” on the U.N.’s sustainable improvement objectives, which embrace combating poverty and starvation, in addition to selling gender equality and clear vitality.

She referred to as the objectives a “globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy.”

Ahmad Dwikat, a Palestinian worker, inspects bars of soap stacked to dry before packing them at a soap factory in the West Bank city of Nablus, on March 1.

Bruce stated the Trump administration additionally took challenge with UNESCO’s transfer to confess the state of Palestine as a member again in 2011.

“UNESCO’s decision to admit the ‘State of Palestine’ as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization,” she stated.

This isn’t the primary time that the Trump administration has pulled out of UNESCO — it did so throughout President Trump’s first time period in 2018 over related considerations about anti-Israel bias on the U.N. company.

5 years later, in 2023, the Biden administration rejoined UNESCO and introduced plans to pay over $600 million in again dues.

UNESCO’s determination to incorporate Palestine as a member has sparked debate for years. In 2011, the Obama administration equally objected to the choice and lower funding to the group.

NPR’s Michele Kelemen contributed reporting.

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