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.
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Joseph RykwertAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh
John TorreyAlso won honorary doctor of Amherst College
Domitila ChungaraAlso won Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to Human Rights
Aryeh EliavAlso won Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to Human Rights
Ebenezer ProutAlso won honorary doctor of the University of EdinburghAbout this person
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.
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