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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Radhika Coomaraswamy

Deshamanya Radhika Coomaraswamy is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate who served as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict until 13 July 2012. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed her to the position in April 2006. She was nominated to the Constitutional Council as a civil representative on 10 September 2015. In 2017, after atrocities against the Rohingya people, she was appointed a Member of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar.

Born: 1953
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community. — © Radhika Coomaraswamy
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.
We must let the world know children’s stories and we must take effective protective, legal and political actions to ensure that as many children as possible are spared the brutalities of war. Our joint action has, and will, make a difference, if only we make the effort.
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