1. Kamzy Gunaratnam served as Oslo's deputy mayor from 2015 to 2021.
11 Facts About Kamzy Gunaratnam
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Kamzy Gunaratnam was elected as a representative to Oslo City Council for the first time in 2007, she was a deputy member of the Storting and took office as the deputy mayor of Oslo on 21 October 2015.
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Kamzy Gunaratnam is a member of the Labour Party, who represent a progressive, social democratic political approach.
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Kamzy Gunaratnam is known for her work promoting ethnic, political and religious diversity.
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Kamzy Gunaratnam is an advocate against online hate speech online hate speech, which she herself has been exposed to.
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Kamzy Gunaratnam cited a need for renewal within the leadership.
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Kamzy Gunaratnam was born in Sri Lanka and came to Norway as a refugee when she was three years old.
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Kamzy Gunaratnam's parents were Tamil refugees who worked in the fishing industry in the north of Norway, though they relocated to Oslo a few years after arriving in the country so that Gunaratnam and her brother could go to a Tamil school.
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Kamzy Gunaratnam was banned from returning to Sri Lanka as a result of her engagement with politics in Norway.
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Kamzy Gunaratnam later studied social geography at the University of Oslo.
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Kamzy Gunaratnam officially took over the first name Kamzy in October 2018, a name she has for long been known as in Norway.