Sunila Abeysekera (September 4 1952 – September 9, 2013) was a Sri Lankan human rights campaigner. She worked on women's rights in Sri Lanka and in the South Asia region for decades as an activist and scholar. Quitting a career as a singer, Abeysekera briefly joined the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and then founded the Women and Media Collective in 1984. As head of the INFORM Human Rights Documentation Centre, she monitored human rights violations by all parties in the civil war. She received the United Nations Human Rights Award in 1999 and the Didi Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award in 2013.[1]
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SunilaAbeysekera (September 4 1952 – September 9, 2013) was a Sri Lankan human rights campaigner. She worked on women's rights in Sri Lanka and in the...
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and had seven children, two boys - Jagath and Janith - and five girls - Sunila, Sandhya, Anusha, Nirma and Shiroma. The Fonseka family began with eleven...
Released on 1 March. Wehi Lihini Chandra S. Perera Thimothi Ponmebrink, Sunila Jayanthi, P. P. Danawardana, Rani Gunawardana, Denawaka Hamine Drama Released...
continued his business in the lands in Padukka. Her mother Adeline Winifried Abeysekera was a housewife. Swarna completed her education from Kotahena Central...
Dharmasri Ranatunga, Mabel Blythe, Shirley Blythe, Dudley Wanaguru, Austin Abeysekera Drama Released on 27 February. Kurulu Bedda L. S. Ramachandran Punya Heendeniya...
December 2010. Retrieved 12 February 2019. Mario Ananda: Here comes the son 'Sunila Sara' : 23 years of creations on stage The velvety voice of Priya Suriyasena...
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