Evelyn Leopold

Evelyn Leopold is a writing fellow and correspondent for Globetrotter. She is an independent journalist based at the United Nations and the winner of a UN Correspondents Association gold medal for her reporting. She served at Reuters as a manager, editor and correspondent in New York, Washington, London, Berlin and Nairobi. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and head of the Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists.

October 1, 2026

News/Sri Lanka

Top American General Visiting Colombo Pays Tribute to WWII War Dead

Lieutenant General Joel Vowell, Deputy Commanding General of US Army Pacific, joined Sri Lankan defence and security representatives and diplomats from five countries at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Jawatta, Colombo,

Columns/Geopolitics

Venezuela’s Uneasy Survival

Venezuela’s post-Maduro reality is defined by a stark imbalance of power. The Rodríguez government has avoided direct confrontation with Washington while negotiating access to its vast oil resources and seeking to stabilise an economy battered by sanctions and years of

October 1, 2026

US Says Sri Lanka’s Investment Climate Remains Hostile to Foreign Capital

Geopolitics/Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s economy grew by 5 per cent in 2025 as the country continued its recovery from the 2022 economic crisis, but its investment

Can Prison Monitoring Change Prisons?

Editor's Choice/Human Rights

A critical examination of the growing expectations placed on prison monitors—and the dangerous gap between identifying abuse and changing the system that produces it.

Iran Punished For Treatment of Women

December 21, 2022

Diplomacy/Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first UN member ever to be expelled from the prestigious Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), tasked with protecting women’s rights and promoting gender

The UN Proved Its Usefulness in Crafting Ukraine Grain Deal

August 28, 2022

Ukraine

The United Nations has some bragging rights in Ukraine after months of criticism it could not stop the disastrous war, devising a deal with Turkey, Ukraine and Russia that could deliver much-needed