Ruvendrini Menikdiwela in Key UNHCR Role – By Michael Roberts Source : thuppahis News Item: “Secretary-General appoints Ms. Ruvendrini Menikdiwela of Sri Lanka as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Ruvendrini Menikdiwela of Sri Lanka as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Ms. Menikdiwela will succeed Gillian Triggs of Australia, to whom both the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Refugees are grateful for her dedicated service to the refugee cause. Ms. Menikdiwela, who currently serves as the Director in UNHCR’s New York Office, brings to the position several decades of professional experience working with and for refugees in UNHCR, including as UNHCR’s Representative in Pakistan and in Thailand. She also held a number of other critical legal posts during her long career with ...
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RUVENDRINI MENIKDIWELA Image Source: unhcr Ruven Menikdiwela is currently serving as the UNHCR Representative in Pakistan, to which function she was appointed in September 2017. Prior to taking up her assignment in Pakistan, she was the UNHCR Representative in Thailand. Ms. Menikdiwela’s career with UNHCR spans over 27 years and includes a range of functions both at UNHCR Headquarters as well as its country operations in Thailand (where she also served previously in 1993), Turkmenistan, and the United States. Ms. Menikdiwela obtained her LLB and her LLM in European Community and Public International Law from the University of Paris II. She is fluent in English and French. Functions with UNHCR Sept 2017 UNHCR Representative in Pakistan 2015 – 2017 UNHCR Representative in Thailand 2011 – 2015 Head, Investigation Service, Inspector General’s Office, UNHCR Headquarters,Geneva 2007 – 2011 Deputy Director, Division of International protection, UNHCR Headquarters, Geneva 2004 – 2007 ...
Ms. Ruvendrini Menikdiwela of Sri Lanka – Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Source : un.org United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Ruvendrini Menikdiwela of Sri Lanka as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Ms. Menikdiwela will succeed Gillian Triggs of Australia, to whom both the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Refugees are grateful for her dedicated service to the refugee cause. Ms. Menikdiwela, who currently serves as the Director in UNHCR’s New York Office, brings to the position several decades of professional experience working with and for refugees in UNHCR, including as UNHCR’s Representative in Pakistan and in Thailand. She also held a number of other critical legal posts during her long career with the Organization, which began in 1988. An expert in international refugee ...
Nov 7, 2023
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Sunil de Silva: A Tribute by Ernest Macintyre He was a distinguished Attorney General of Sri Lanka and served that society in associated areas, such as being the chairman of the group that drafted the Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism for SAARC and Presenter of Sri Lankan Reports to UNHCR. Sunil was given The Award of Excellence, Colombo Plan. What appeared to be a sideline, but was not, was his passionate involvement in theatre. Sunil, after discovering that the theatre and the world were integrally connected, treated Australia as just another part of the large stage of mankind. “All the World’s a Stage” he realised, “And all the men and women merely players”, who have their entrances and then their exits. I have it etched in my memory how Sunil, in a major early Sydney performance, The Theatre of Migration, sang with other actors: Toorali, Yourali, Yamu Dhang Toorali Yourali Yea Toorali Yourali Yamu ...
