Radhika Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka

Human Rights Advocate

Under-Secretary-General of United Nations as a Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, April 2006

Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission, Mai 2003

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, 1994-2003

She has served as a member of the Global Faculty of the New York University School of Law, also taught summer courses at New college Oxford every year on the International Human Rights of Women from 1996-2006.

Publications include two books on constitutional law and numerous articles on ethnic studies and the status of women.

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