and recognition Sunila Abeysekera received the United Nations Human Rights Award from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1999. Human Rights Watch recognised her work with a Global Human Rights Defender Award in 2007. In 2013, she was given the inaugural Didi Nirmala Deshpande South Asian Peace and Justice Award. See also Rosanna Flamer-Caldera Kumari Jayawardena References External links Women and Media Collective SAWNET (South Asian Women's NETwork) Centre for Women's Research (CENWOR) Sinhalese activists Sri Lankan women activists Sri Lankan human rights activists Sri Lankan feminists Sinhalese writers Feminist studies scholars Multicultural feminism 1952 births 2013 deaths Sri Lankan stage actresses Sri Lankan film actresses