Radhika Coomaraswamy: Standing Up for the Oppressed and Neglected

Ingrid Westendorp

Radhika Coomaraswamy: Standing Up for the Oppressed and Neglected

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Abstract

Radhika Coomaraswamy has played an important role in furthering human rights, particularly for women and children, both at home in Sri Lanka, as well as internationally in her function of (first) UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Faces of Human Rights
Editors	Kasey McCall-Smith, Jan Wouters, Felipe Gómez Isa
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Hart Publihsing
Chapter	29
Pages	291-300
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781509926916
Publication status	Published - May 2019

Keywords

human rights

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