Sri Lanka: two WHRDs targeted by smear campaign ahead of elections
Event- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Initial Date
- Mar 9, 2020
- Event Description
Women Nominees to be candidates of upcoming election: former Human rights commissioner Ambika Satkunarajah and women�s rights activist Nalini Ratnarajah were subjected to derogatory remarks and defamatory reporting by Tamil news website athirvunews. Ratnarajah was mainly targeted for her activism on reproductive rights and women�s rights.
- Impact of Event
- 2
- Gender of HRD
- Woman
- Violation
- Online Attack and Harassment
- Vilification
- Rights Concerned
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to political participation
- Right to protect reputation
- HRD
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 7.530772019412275
Longitude: 80.69352624686368
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 9 March 2020, Ambika Satkunarajah and Nalini Ratnarajah, WHRDs were subject to vilification by news website Athirvunews, after they candidated for the upcoming elections in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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