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Sunila Abeysekera is a feminist activist and human rights defender who lives and works in Sri Lanka. She is the executive director of INFORM, a human rights documentation centre based in Colombo.

Sunila Abeysekera, 46, a single mother, is a women's rights and human rights activists for 25 years at the regional and international level in Sri Lanka. (1999)

Sunila is committed to promoting issues of peace, particularly women's participation in peace-building in the region. She was awarded the UN Human Rights Prize in 1998.