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Contributors | Evelyn Leopold

Evelyn Leopold, a freelance writer and regular contributor to the Huffington Post, is based at the United Nations, where she was bureau chief for Reuters for 17 years. At Reuters, she was also a news editor for North America, the editor for the Africa region and associate editor worldwide and a reporter in London and in Bonn as well as in New York and in Washington. Leopold was a recipient of an Alicia Patterson Fellowship and co-wrote a book (in German) on women in East Germany.

In addition, she is chairwoman of the Dag Hammarskjöld Scholarship Fund for Journalists, was awarded a gold medal in 2000 for UN reporting by the UN Correspondents Association and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Security Council Links Climate Problems to World Security, Just Barely

By Evelyn Leopold | Jul 21, 2011

Some world issues appear as easy to support as motherhood and apple pie. But not in the Security Council, where Germany and its supporters spent many hours recently in negotiations before the council issued a mild statement on climate change’s effect on international peace and security.

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What Happened in the West of Côte d’Ivoire?

By Evelyn Leopold | Apr 14, 2011

Ivan Simonovic, the assistant secretary-general of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, recently returned from a week spent in Abidjan and western Côte d’Ivoire on a fact-finding mission, where reports of massacres and other human rights abuses have taken place. An independent inquiry into abuses ordered by the Human Rights Council is due in mid-June.

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Côte d’Ivoire: Getting Worse Before It Gets Better

By Evelyn Leopold | Mar 01, 2011

The Valentine’s Day chocolates you munched last month probably originated in Côte d’Ivoire, where violence is escalating after a disputed election, threatening to plunge the country into another civil war. The nation is the largest exporter of the cocoa bean, and its price reached a 32-year high in New York last week as an export ban remains in effect.

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Stopgaps Applied to Continuing Rape Crisis in Eastern Congo

By Evelyn Leopold | Oct 18, 2010

"A dead rat is worth more than the body of a woman,” was how Margot Wallstrom, the United Nations envoy on sexual abuse, began her address to the Security Council on Oct. 14, quoting a rape victim. More than 300 women, girls and boys were assaulted over three days this summer in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Wiping Out Disparities for All Children Everywhere

By Evelyn Leopold | Jul 28, 2010

Anthony Lake, the new executive director of Unicef, fears that many children of the world tend to disappear in a haze of statistics, making progress on paper while neglect, abuse or impoverishment go undetected.

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