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Radhika Coomaraswamy

Deshamanya Radhika Coomaraswamy (born 17 September 1953) is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate who served as an [https://everystorysrilanka.medium.com/the-politics-of-solidarity-and-the-power-of-overcoming-dr-radhika-coomaraswamy-49aa118997b3 Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict from 2006 to 2012]. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed her to the position in April 2006. In 1994, she was appointed the [https://everystorysrilanka.medium.com/the-politics-of-solidarity-and-the-power-of-overcoming-dr-radhika-coomaraswamy-49aa118997b3 United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women] — the first under this mandate. Her appointment marked the [https://everystorysrilanka.medium.com/the-politics-of-solidarity-and-the-power-of-overcoming-dr-radhika-coomaraswamy-49aa118997b3 first time] that violence against women was conceptualized as a political issue internationally.

She [https://everystorysrilanka.medium.com/the-politics-of-solidarity-and-the-power-of-overcoming-dr-radhika-coomaraswamy-49aa118997b3 co-founded the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES)] in 1982. She was nominated to the Constitutional Council (Sri Lanka) as a civil representative on 10 September 2015. In 2017, after atrocities against the Rohingya people, she was appointed a Member of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar. Provided by Wikipedia