Dear Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to a Memorial Lecture to commemorate our Founder, Human Rights Defender and Feminist Activist, Sunila Abeysekera. It has been 8 years since her passing. Each year we come together to remember her life and her immense contribution to the feminist movement. This year, amidst a global pandemic, we are honoured to have Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, to talk about “Sunila and the origins of the international violence against women movement”.

Date: September 4th, 2021

Time: 6:00 PM (India Standard Time)

Location: Online via Zoom with simultaneous translations in Sinhala and Tamil languages

Please register in advance for this event – https://forms.gle/WpFkUHrZ9sj6kFvG7