# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/radhika-coomaraswamy
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:18:17.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/radhika-coomaraswamy"
name: "Radhika Coomaraswamy"
slug: "radhika-coomaraswamy"
description: "Deshamanya Radhika Coomaraswamy is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate who served as an 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 United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women — the first under this mandate. Her appointment marked the first time that violence against women was conceptualized as a political issue internationally."
tagline: "Sri Lankan United Nations official"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.9
  momentum:             1.634877384196185
  historical:           8.764077333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Radhika Coomaraswamy"
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    title: "Radhika Coomaraswamy"
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    title: "Radhika Coomaraswamy"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhika_Coomaraswamy"
    title: "Radhika Coomaraswamy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Radhika Coomaraswamy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Radhika Coomaraswamy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ラディカ・クマラスワミ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "இராதிகா குமாரசுவாமி"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump