19 Facts About Maurizio Giuliano

Maurizio Giuliano was born on 1975 and is an Italian United Nations official, traveller, author and journalist.

Maurizio Giuliano has worked for various international organizations in the field of media relations.

Maurizio Giuliano argued, hence, that the US Government - in addition to the embargo's direct influence on supporting Cuba's regime - indirectly inhibits potentially constructive pressures towards change, insofar as third countries, foreign non-governmental organizations and prominent individuals lend support to Cuba's resistance to the US embargo, and this offsets external pressures to democratize, thereby allowing the Cuban regime to convert such "empathy" into a source of legitimacy at home.

Besides work on Cuba, other countries Maurizio Giuliano covered in his journalistic work include East Timor and Myanmar.

In 2004, Maurizio Giuliano worked for the International Organization for Migration in the elections for Afghan refugees in Pakistan, where he advocated for turnout by potential voters in spite of precarious security conditions.

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Maurizio Giuliano worked for the United Nations, again in the field of media relations, in Central African Republic in 2006, where he denounced very low levels of funding for a "neglected" emergency and called Western governments to be generous in saving lives of the most vulnerable Central Africans.

Maurizio Giuliano moved to Sudan in 2007, where he vocally denounced abuses by increasingly fragmented armed groups as well as access constraints caused by the Sudanese Government, and called for more funding in response to floods that hit the city of Kassala.

Maurizio Giuliano warned of an impending "second wave of death" that would result from post-flood disease and food shortages, stating that 3.

Maurizio Giuliano stated that "an already colossal disaster [was] getting worse and requiring an even more colossal response", referring to the relief operations as "a marathon at sprint pace", and giving figures of up to a million people displaced in 48 hours.

Maurizio Giuliano argued that the needs outpaced available resources, due to endless rains.

Maurizio Giuliano indicated that the floods had a worse impact than several other recent natural disasters combined, becoming the worst natural disaster in United Nations history.

Maurizio Giuliano attracted criticism for exaggerating the extent of the emergency but was credited for bringing attention to it.

Maurizio Giuliano considered that serious atrocities and human rights abuses in Ituri were not getting sufficient international attention, and called for robust protection efforts and funding to meet humanitarian needs.

Maurizio Giuliano advocated for reinforced accountability to recipients of assistance.

Maurizio Giuliano claimed that he had visited a total of up to 238 territories, and stated that North Korea had been the hardest country to get into, after numerous attempts and long waits to get a visa, followed by a visit during which he was never let alone by his "tour guides".

Maurizio Giuliano started travelling at the age of 14 and believes that, as of 2004, he had travelled at least two million miles, including on the Trans-Siberian Railway and through 11 round-the-world air journeys.

Maurizio Giuliano stated that in some countries he lived or spent months, while in others he spent mere hours, his shortest stay being a one-hour visit to Tuvalu with Air Fiji.

Maurizio Giuliano then travelled from Suriname to London, with 42 passports filled with immigration stamps, in order to prove his record with Guinness World Records.

Maurizio Giuliano claimed that most of his travels were unrelated to the record, and that only since 2001, on the suggestion of friends, he had the Guinness Record in mind when planning his travels.