Ben Donaldson
@benaldson
Dad/European/Global citizen. Love it when countries collaborate. Advisor @UNAUK. Coordinator @1for8billion. Freelance advice on #advocacy #UN #MEL #ArmsControl
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19-02-2009 11:37:28
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Let’s hope the #UnitedNations appoints a humanitarian boss with integrity not a tarred politician chosen by Rishi Sunak. I’m not unpatriotic. It’s in UK interest for UN to field a competent and engaged aid boss, not a tired appointee from a retrograde political party.
The P5 dominate senior appointments at the UN, carving them up between them. It's time for the UK to give up its monopoly on the head of UN Humanitarian and allow the job to go to the most qualified, especially since the UK is involved in many of the conflicts UNOCHA deals with
We join over 60 humanitarian experts, #CivilSociety leaders and former UN officials calling on António Guterres to champion a merit-based appointment process for the United Nations’s next Emergency Relief Coordinator.
Read the open letter:
una.org.uk/open-letter-un…
#CoopersLaneBikeBus starts our weekly journey to Coopers Lane Primary School in a traffic free space, and we end in our fantastic #SchoolStreet in Lewisham Council . We hope you will join us one week Brenda Dacres Will Norman Sadiq Khan Our children love the opportunity to cycle to school.
I disentangle networks and politics of the new Cold War with The Conversation. We are in an age of neolateralism.
Thank you Jonathan Este! BISA - British International Studies Association Dr Linda Ross Dean Burnett (@[email protected]) CND Asia-Pacific Leadership Network Nuclear Age Peace Fn Reverse The Trend:Save Our People, Save Our Planet BASIC Florian Eblenkamp Ben Donaldson Roger Mac Ginty
theconversation.com/new-cold-war-g…
This cut away to an empty ministerial chair in the Business and Trade Committee’s session on UK arms exports to Israel is all you need to know about this government’s commitment to transparency and accountability on arms trade.
Business and Trade Committee
Extremely proud Andy Fearn and our Protection Approaches & On Your Side teams are launching our latest publication this evening in parliament on the true level of hate crime against East & Southeast Asian communities —with our research partners The Centre for Hate Studies & event chair Sarah Owen MP