Natalie Samarasinghe
Natalie Samarasinghe is the global director of advocacy for the Open Society Foundations. Previously, she was the executive director of the United Nations Association-UK, the first woman to have this role, and a co-founder of the 1 for 7 Billion campaign. She has degrees in human rights and modern history from Oxford University and the London School of Economics.
- Natalie Samarasinghe
- • February 22, 2023
Inaction on climate. The grossly unequal response to Covid-19. Bailing out banks instead of helping the least-developed countries. The different and disproportionate approaches to conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. The failure to prevent atrocities in Palestine, Myanmar,…
- Categories: General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, Ukraine-Russia War, WORLDVIEWS
- Natalie Samarasinghe
- • October 27, 2022
“The United Nations is dead,” said the Catholic Herald in 1947, two years after the UN was founded. Reports of its demise are perennial, but they seem to have reached a crescendo this year, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, WORLDVIEWS
- Natalie Samarasinghe
- • May 18, 2017
LONDON — Since Donald Trump took office as president of the United States, numerous satirical videos have emerged, apparently from European states vying to be “second” to America’s “first.” The German spoof cites the country’s experience of walls. Luxembourg’s…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Natalie Samarasinghe
- • July 26, 2016
Twitter proved more effective than papal smoke signals in getting out the results of the first straw poll of candidates aspiring to be the ninth secretary-general of the United Nations. This is one reason that although some confidentiality is…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
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