inseconline.org/index.php?type=news&id=12494&lang=en Top Human Rights Activist Dies Kathmandu/September 9 Leading human rights activist Sunila Abeysekera has passed away on September 9 after suffering from a prolonged illness. She passed away while receiving treatment at a private hospital in Colombo, reported Colombo Gazette, a Sri-Lankan news portal. Sunila Abeysekera has worked on women’s rights and human rights issues in Sri Lanka and in the South Asia region for over 20 years as an activist and scholar. Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presented Abeysekera with a UN human rights award in 1999. She was also honoured for her work by the Human Rights Watch. Since 1992 Abeysekera has been working with the Global Campaign for Women’s Human Rights and has been actively working in lobbying at all the UN Conferences since then — 1993 in Vienna and 1995 in Beijing — focusing on the issue of mainstreaming women’s human rights concerns within the international human rights system. She has also spoken at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Sri Lanka. Online Desk Posted on : 2013-09-10 08:09:00
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 04:09:22 +0000
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