Danny Sriskandarajah

Dr. Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is the chief executive of the New Economics Foundation. His previous roles include CEO of Oxfam GB, Secretary General of CIVICUS, and Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society. He is the author of “Power to the People” (Headline Press, 2024).

Towards a multipolar civil society

With the world more multipolar than ever, why is civil society power still disproportionately located in the global North? A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on Internationalizing human rights organizations. Español, Português

By Mandeep Tiwana and Danny Sriskandarajah

/ 28 May 2015

Sri Lanka’s twin challenges

The Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Colombo was the occasion for renewed demands that the state account for the brutal ending of its war with the Tamil Tigers in 2009. But Sri Lanka's appalling human-rights record does not only apply to its violent past: today too civil-society organis

By Danny Sriskandarajah

/ 2 Dec 2013