25 March 2021 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: activism, climate, coronavirus, Inequality
It was an honour to be part of the UN’s SDG Global Festival of Action alongside inspiring activists from around the world. I spoke to Nadira Hira about ways that we can all play a part to fight for a better future, to push leaders to build back differently from the pandemic, reduce inequalities and … Continue reading “Conference: SDG Festival of Action”
22 March 2021 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: aid, Inequality, politics, poverty
The UK Government’s decision to cut overseas aid was clearly immoral, now it appears to have been unlawful as well. This legal opinion by the former Director of Public Prosecution Lord Macdonald offers the UK Government the chance to think again, do the right thing and keep our promises to provide medicines, food and shelter … Continue reading “BBC: aid cuts unlawful as well as immoral”
8 February 2021 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: coronavirus, Inequality, vaccines
I spoke to CNN’S Zain Asher about the impact of the new Covid variant on developing economies and the deeply unfair ‘vaccine apartheid’ we are seeing, where rich countries have secured around three times their population’s worth of vaccines, while in poorer countries only 1 in 10 people may be vaccinated by the end of … Continue reading “Interview: CNN – why we need a people’s vaccine”
25 January 2021 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: coronavirus, Inequality, poverty, tax
I spoke to the BBC about Oxfam’s new research, which found that Covid-19 could increase economic inequality in almost every country at once, the first time this has happened since records began over a century ago. Billions of people are struggling amid the worst job crisis in over 90 years, while the fortunes of the … Continue reading “Interview: BBC – wealth taxation could help tackle inequality and fund Covid recovery”
8 December 2020 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: aid, humanitarian, Inequality, power, race
In recent years a welcome debate has come to the fore about the role of large aid and development NGOs. I wrote this piece for Open Democracy in response to a thoughtful open letter from 200 organisations based primarily in the Global South, which challenged international NGOs to change their approach to be better partners … Continue reading “Opinion: shifting power and amplifying local action”
12 November 2020 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: aid, Inequality, poverty, power, race
I was invited to share some reflections on the future of aid for The New Humanitarian’s series on where next for the sector. For me, shifting power has to be at the heart of our efforts if we want to see genuine transformation, supporting communities to drive sustainable change themselves. And movements like Black Lives … Continue reading “OPINION: DECOLONISING AID”
11 November 2020 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: coronavirus, gender, Inequality, poverty
It was a pleasure to participate in this debate for Thomson Reuters Foundation’s annual Trust Conference, with Professor Ian Goldin, Livia Firth, David Craig and James Irungu Mwangi. We discussed practical ways that we can rebuild not just better, but differently, from this pandemic. It’s clear that if we really want to use this moment … Continue reading “DEBATE: REBUILDING A DIFFERENT ECONOMY”
10 November 2020 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: coronavirus, foreign policy, Inequality, poverty
In the wake of the US election, I wrote an article for Prospect Magazine about some of the foreign policy questions the government faces. As we grapple with uncertainties of Covid and Brexit, we are long overdue a compelling vision of what Global Britain stands for. The government should not further delay its Integrated Review … Continue reading “OPINION: THE CASE FOR A VALUES-BASED FOREIGN POLICY”
21 October 2020 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: aid, coronavirus, humanitarianism, Inequality, power, race
It was great to kick off this important series about Rethinking Humanitarianism in conversation with Heba Aly, director of The New Humanitarian, and Jeremy Konyndyk, senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. We discussed how the fallout of COVID-19 and movements like Black Lives Matter have sharpened the focus on inequality and power … Continue reading “PODCAST: THE NEW HUMANITARIAN”
23 September 2020 | Danny Sriskandarajah | Tags: coronavirus, Inequality, power, women
It was a pleasure to host this debate as part of the UN’s SDG Action Zone, a series of events to supercharge action to meet the Global Goals. I spoke with inspirational activists from Nigeria, Kenya and the Philippines about their experiences of inequality and their campaigns for a better future. They described how social … Continue reading “DEBATE: INEQUALITY AND THE GLOBAL GOALS”
