Rangita de Silva de Alwis News
Rangita de Silva de Alwis shares her expertise on international women's rights.Dr. Rangita de Silva de Alwis argues that it is time to retire traditional notions of transitional justice that disregard women鈥檚 experiences.
- Global Connections, UN Sustainable Development Goal 16
Rangita de Silva de Alwis, S.J.D., WCW senior scholar and associate dean of International Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, was appointed an Advisor to the United Nations (U.N.) Strategic Development Goals (SDG) Fund. In November 2017, she highlighted the potential impact of a new report for the SDG Fund, Business and SDG 16: Contributing to Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, via Inter Press Service news agency.
- WCW Scholar Leads 妻友社区 College/U.S. State Department Institute on Women鈥檚 Leadership
Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2012
妻友社区 College has joined the U.S. State Department and its sister colleges in presenting the inaugural Women in Public Service Summer Institute on 妻友社区鈥檚 campus June 11-22, 2012. An integral part of the Women in Public Service Project, the pilot institute is a first-of-its-kind, two-week program that is training the next generation of women leaders.
- Q&A with Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D.
Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2011
Interview by Susan Lowry Rardin
A lawyer armed with the law in the form of three UN Human Rights Conventions, Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D. seeks to amplify women鈥檚 efforts on behalf of equality and justice. One of her recent leadership events, organized with Morocco鈥檚 Ministry of the Interior, was the 鈥�Rabat Roundtable: Women Leading Change in the Arab and Muslim Communities,鈥� which was held late in the 2011 Arab Spring and involved women leaders from the Middle East/North Africa region. Her strategies, which focus especially on Asia and the Muslim/Arab communities, feature the building of networks of women鈥檚 organizations and the linking of interest groups鈥攅specially through the power of those international human rights Conventions, as she describes in this interview.
- Global Connections: WCW Organizes Roundtable for Women Leaders in the Arab and Muslim Communities
Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2011
by Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D.
Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D., the director of international human rights policy programs at the 妻友社区 (WCW), partnered with the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior, The Kingdom of Morocco, to present a seminal program, 鈥淩abat Roundtable: Women Leading Change in the Muslim World,鈥� May 16鈥�17, 2011, in Rabat, Morocco. This critical Roundtable was originally organized in partnership with the Hon. Dr. Moushira Khattab, the former Minister for Family and Population of Egypt, to be held in Cairo under the auspices of the Ministry of Family and Population, Egypt with whom de Silva-de Alwis has partnered with in her work with the Legislative Reform Initiative along with UNICEF. The political changes sweeping Egypt and other countries propelled WCW and its partners to seize the transformative potential of these historic movements and to reconvene the program in Rabat this May. The Roundtable brought together leading women鈥檚 rights advocates from the Muslim World for high-level discussion and debate to ensure that women are part of the important reformist and decision making processes. Over two dozen local, women government officials from Morocco joined the Roundtable initiating a global-to-local exchange. - International Advisor's Global Outreach
Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2006
Rangita de Silva-de Alwis joined women leaders from across the world in Washington DC at the inaugural conference launching the International Republican Institute鈥檚 (IRI) Women鈥檚 Democracy Network (WDN) to foster relationships and help the leaders advance as their countries make the transition to democracy.
- Global Connections: Rangita de Silva-de Alwis
Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2011
In February, Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D. served as a panelist on the program, 鈥淓xpanding Access to Education and Employment Opportunities for Girls and Women with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) 鈥擲trategy for Action!鈥� during the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meetings in New York, NY. Her presentation was on 鈥淪TEM: Expanding opportunities for women and girls with disabilities in education and employment.鈥� Also in February, de Silvade Alwis presented her paper, 鈥淓xamining Gender Stereotypes in New Work/ Family Reconciliation Policies,鈥� accepted for publishing in the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, during the Duke University Law School spring symposium. 
The Boston Globe June 11, 2012
Shannon Young, Associated Press
MarketWatch November 16, 2011
PR Newswire
Daily News (Sri Lanka) September 28, 2010
ISRIA.com September 14, 2010- Global Connections: Testimony to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Research & Action Report, Spring/Summer 2010
by Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D.
Women in a Changing China鈥擬arch 8, 2010
Below is an excerpt of a testimony offered by Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D., director of international human rights policy programs at the 妻友社区. [The hearing was convened March 8, 2010, pursuant to notice, at 2:00 p.m., in room B-318, Rayburn House Office Building, Douglas Grob, Co-chairman鈥檚 Senior Staff Member, presiding.] Also present were Charlotte Oldham-Moore, Staff Director; Kara Abramson, Advocacy Director; Abigail C. Story, Manager of Outreach and Special Projects; Anna Patella, Congressional-Executive Commission on China; and Lindsey Purdy, Lagai Research Foundation.
At this CECC Roundtable, a panel of experts explored the Chinese government鈥檚 progress and challenges in addressing women鈥檚 rights issues. China ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1980. Thirty years later, what has been the impact of this commitment? What progress has been made at the central and local level toward greater protection of women鈥檚 rights? What specific challenges remain?
Huffingtonpost.com
Joe Amon
March 8, 2010- Why Women's Rights Are the Cause of Our Time
Letter to the Editor submitted by Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, S.J.D., to The New York Times Magazine in response to their special issue, "Why Women's Rights Are the Cause of Our Time"; published August 23, 2009. (unpublished)
August 24, 2009 - Rangita de Silva-de Alwis Moderates Conference on Legislative Reform to Achieve Human Rights
Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2009
In November, Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, LL .M., S.J.D., served as a moderator at the Conference on Legislative Reform to Achieve Human Rights held in New York, NY. Presentations provided an opportunity for representatives of participating organizations to showcase their current work on legislative reform and discuss challenges and opportunities to achieve human rights, specifically those of children, and the UN鈥檚 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Earlier that month, her work was presented at the Dialogue on National Monitoring of Human Rights Treaties, also in New York, NY.
In January, de Silva-de Alwis traveled to Bangladesh and Nepal for the disability rights conferences outlined in the previous article. The following month, she presented a discussion on Women鈥檚 Rights Advocacy in China at The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations: Social Policy: Culture, Belief, andGender in a Changing Asia program in Cambridge, MA. As a member of the advisory board of the United Nations Evaluation Group (UNEG), de Silva-de Alwis attend the Workshop on Gender Equality and Human Rights Evaluation Guidance held in February in New York, NY. In April she attended the Geneva meeting held on Mainstreaming Disability and MDG Policies, Processes and Mechanisms. The UNEG is a professional network that brings together the units responsible for evaluation in the UN system, including the specialized agencies, funds, programs and affiliated organizations, decided to develop guidance on integrating human rights and gender equality perspectives into evaluation within the UN system. In March, de Silva-de Alwis attended the International Conference on Violence Against the Girl Child held in The Hague. The conference focused on violence against the girl child in the home and family. In May, she traveled to Cambodia for work to build disability rights coalitions before then traveling to India for the Asia Cause Lawyer Network Steering Committee Meeting and Seminar on Disability Rights for Women.
- Human Rights Frameworks Integral to WCW Global Work
Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2009
Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, LL.M., S.J.D., director of International Human Rights Policy Programs at the 妻友社区, reflects on ways the Universal Declaration of Human Rights informs the Centers鈥� newest international work. - Global Connections: New International Initiatives Promote Women鈥檚 Advancement & Leadership
Global Connections: U.S.-Saudi Women's Forum on Social Entrepreneurship and Women's Leadership Network
- New Funding for Sex Ed, Dating Violence, and Disability Rights
October 15, 2008
- New Funding Supports Rights and Court Approaches
August 15, 2008
- International Work Grows in Asia
June 15, 2008
The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Saushan Rahman
May 21, 2008- Executive Report on the Asian Regional Conference鈥擶omen and Children: The Human Rights Relationship, December 9-10, 2007
Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2008UNICEF and the 妻友社区 (WCW) convened a seminal Asian regional conference, Women and Children: the Human Rights Relationship, December 9-10, 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference was conceptualized by UNICEF鈥檚 Global Policy Section as part of a major initiative on human rights-based approaches to women鈥檚 and children鈥檚 rights. Rangita de Silva-de Alwis, senior advisor for international programs at WCW, led the organizing of this innovative and dynamic conference that had as its aims and goals an exciting agenda for change on the intersections of women鈥檚 and children鈥檚 rights.
- Rangita de Silva-de Alwis Presents to Oxfam America
Research & Action Report Fall/Winter 2007
Rangita de Silva-de Alwis made a presentation on new developments in women鈥檚 rights lawmaking and judicial decision making in Asia, within a human rights framework, to the Private Sector Team at Oxfam America, headquartered in Boston, MA, in May.
- WCW Researcher Presents at Conference on Gender Equality
Research & Action Report Fall/Winter 2008
- WCW Researcher Participates in International Women's Day Conference
Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2008
, senior advisor on international programs at the 妻友社区 (WCW), participated in the Women鈥檚 Democracy Network (WDN) International Women鈥檚 Day conference on March 6-8, 2008 in Washington, DC. The conference, organized by the International Republican Institute, brought together more than 30 women from around the world to continue the important discussions regarding the progression of the WDN.
