{"id":13841,"date":"2021-08-23T04:51:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T04:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2021-08-23T04:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T04:51:26","slug":"invitation-sunila-abeysekera-memorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/invitation-sunila-abeysekera-memorial-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation &#8211; Sunila Abeysekera Memorial Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cSunila and the origins of the international violence against women movement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Date: September 4th, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Time: 6:00 PM (India Standard Time)<\/p>\n<p>Location: Online via Zoom with simultaneous translations in Sinhala and Tamil languages<\/p>\n<p>Please register in advance for this event &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfyleng53eiCICPsQFnutwiMr8mRVKbNOG2Tv6KuC4ciS7SKw\/viewform\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/WpFkUHrZ9sj6kFvG7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13842\" src=\"http:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/12-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, We are pleased to invite you to a Memorial Lecture to commemorate our Founder, Human Rights Defender and Feminist Activist, Sunila Abeysekera. 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