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Sunila Abeysekera (September 4 1952 – September 9, 2013) was a Sri Lankan human rights campaigner. She worked on women's rights in Sri Lanka and in the South Asia region for decades as an activist and scholar. Quitting a career as a singer, Abeysekera briefly joined the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and then founded the Women and Media Collective in 1984. As head of the INFORM Human Rights Documentation Centre, she monitored human rights violations by all parties in the civil war. She received the United Nations Human Rights Award in 1999 and the Didi Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award in 2013.

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  • Sunila Abeysekera (September 4 1952 – September 9, 2013) was a Sri Lankan human rights campaigner. She worked on women's rights in Sri Lanka and in the South Asia region for decades as an activist and scholar. Quitting a career as a singer, Abeysekera briefly joined the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and then founded the Women and Media Collective in 1984. As head of the INFORM Human Rights Documentation Centre, she monitored human rights violations by all parties in the civil war. She received the United Nations Human Rights Award in 1999 and the Didi Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award in 2013. (en)
  • Sunila Abeysekera (1952 - 9 de septiembre de 2013) fue una galardonada activista de derechos humanos esrilanquesa. Trabajó en los derechos de la mujer y las cuestiones de derechos humanos en Sri Lanka y en la región sur de Asia durante más de 20 años como activista y erudita. El Secretario General de la ONU, Kofi Annan, otorgó a Abeysekera el Premio de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas en 1999; También fue honrada por su trabajo por los derechos humanos en Human Rights Watch.​ Abeysekera murió en Sri Lanka el 9 de septiembre de 2013.​ (es)
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