Dr Wasunna is a physician and an infectious disease and tropical medicine specialist from Nairobi, Kenya. She joined the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) in 2003 and is the Director of the DNDi Africa Regional Office.
Dr Wasunna leads DNDi’s activities in Eastern Africa. She is a founding member and former Chair of the Leishmaniasis East Africa Platform (LEAP), which promotes clinical research for Leishmaniasis and capacity building in the region.

Migration with its complexity brings various challenges to tackle not only for politicians, the environment and civil society, but also national economies. However, migration also opens up opportunties. The International Migrants Day reminds and informs about those as well as transsectoral correlations of migration.

Women have made huge strides in the push for equality in all spheres over the last two decades. However, the road to gender equality and justice is still rugged and in many other ways yet to begin. Especially women’s economic independence still faces big obstacles, which is hampering economic progress on the continent.

Um die Auswirkungen von Korruption auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Afrika zu beleuchten, sprach GPI mit Jeff Kabondo, einem renommierten Anti-Korruptionsexperten aus Malawi. Jeff Kabondo hat mehr als 15 Jahre Erfahrung in der Anti-Korruptionsarbeit und leitet die National Integrity Platform, die führende zivilgesellschaftliche Organisation zur Korruptionsbekämpfung in Malawi.

Nadia Murad has long been known as the face and voice of the Yezidi. For three years, she has been advocating for Yezidi justice in international fora and through meetings with world leaders. She constantly calls for international action against ISIS and urged for the crimes against the Yazidi to be officially recognised as genocide. Her Initiative is dedicated to rebuilding communities in crisis, advocating for victims of sexual violence and ultimately engaging for a world free from genocide and crimes against humanity. The Initiative encourages world leaders to act and stresses that “words without action inflict the same harm and suffering as the perpetrators of mass atrocities and sexual violence”.

2019 marks the year when Germany is once again occupying a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council and in April takes the presidency. Together with France, they picked „Woman, Peace and Security“ as their focus topic. Against this background, Germany and France organized an Open Arria Meeting in New York looking at the inequalities between women and men in political processes, war, and conflict. As a civil society partner to the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations and its ambassador Dr. Christoph Heusgen, Global Perspectives was invited to accompany the conference at the UN.