Rangita de Silva de Alwis has been appointed to the President of the UN General Assembly’s Advisory Board on Gender Equality to advise on advancing his priorities on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Rangita de Silva de Alwis has been appointed to the President of the UN General Assembly’s Advisory Board on Gender Equality to advise on advancing his priorities on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Philémon Yunji Yang, President of the United Nations General Assembly for its seventy-ninth session, served as the Prime minister of Cameroon from 2009 to 2019.
The President has informed de Silva de Alwis that this is a particularly important year as the United Nations moves forward with the implementation of the Pact for the Future and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Last year, the heads of UNDP and UN Women served on the Advisory Board to the President of the seventy eighth session of the UN General Assembly.
de Silva de Alwis has also been appointed Vice Chair of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute headed by Baroness Helena Kennedy, KC, Order of the Thistle and one of UK’s most distinguished lawyers and former Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. She will serve on the Council with many leading lawyers including Mark Stephens CBE who has undertaken some of the highest profile cases in the UK and abroad defending artists’ freedom of expression and online publishers against charges of libel. Other members of the Council who were connected with the Law School, include, Hina Jilani, a member of the Distinguished group of Elders, Steve Crown Deputy Global Counsel of Human Rights at Microsoft and Richard Goldstone, the honorary president.
In March 2025, she has been asked to deliver a lecture, “Has Western Feminism Failed the Women of the Global South?” at the Oxford Union.
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