Kumudini Samuel is joint coordinator of the Women and Media Collective (WMC) and editor of Women's Rights Watch, both in Colombo. She has worked on the monitoring and advocacy of Human and Women's Rights in Sri Lanka for the past twenty years through the WMC, INFORM and the Movement for Inter Racial Justice and Equality (MIRJE).

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Accord Issue 4: Sri Lanka

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