Radhika Coomaraswamy is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate who served as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict. Coomaraswamy was appointed Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission in 2003. She has served as a member of the Global Faculty of the New York University School of Law. She also taught a summer course at New College, Oxford, on the International Human Rights of Women. She has published widely, including books on constitutional law and numerous articles on ethnic studies and the status of women.
