Savitri Goonesekere
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Savitri Goonesekere | |
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| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Awards | Fukuoka Prize |
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| Alma mater | Ladies College, University of Peradeniya, Harvard Law School |
Savitri Goonesekere is a jurist and academic[1] from Sri Lanka. She is an international expert on the rights of children.
Education
Goonesekere studied at Ladies' College, Colombo and obtained arts and law degrees at the University of Peradeniya in 1961. She obrained her master’s degree at the Harvard Law School in 1962.[2]
Career
Goonesekere was the first female Professor of Law to be appointed at the Open University of Sri Lanka in 1983. She worked as the first female Vice Chancellor[3] of the University of Colombo from 1999 until 2002 and served on the editorial board of the United Nations Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children.
A prolific writer, Goonasekere was instrumental in the evolution of modern legal education in Sri Lanka. Her works on family law and child labour issues include: Child Labour in Sri Lanka: Learning from the Past (ILO:1993); Children, Law and Justice: A South Asian Perspective (Sage: 1998); and as editor, Violence, Law, and Women's Rights in South Asia (Sage:2004).
Other activities
- Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, Member of the Board (since 2016)[4]
Recognition
- 2008 – Fukuoka Prize[citation needed]
- On 27 March 2019, Goonesekere was celebrated as one 12 Women Changemakers by the Sri Lanka parliament[5].
References
- ^ Liyanage, Jayanthi (21 September 2003). "Code of conduct to deal with sexual harassment in the work place". Sunday Observer. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- ^ "Emeritus Professor S W E Goonesekere". University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ ""Society has been regressing in its Attitude Towards Women" - Prof. Savitri Goonesekere". CENWOR. 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
- ^ Board Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children.
- ^ "Parliament of Sri Lanka".
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