Radhika tipped for top UN post
Radhika Coomaraswamy, a former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, is one of the front-runners for the job of UN Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflicts.

If appointed, she will head the office once held by Olara Otunnu, who visited Sri Lanka to investigate the recruitment of child soldiers by the LTTE.
The post of Special Representative has the rank of UN Under-Secretary-General (USG), the third highest ranking position in the UN. So far, the only three Sri Lankans to hold the rank of USG were Dr Gamani Corea, head of UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Jayantha Dhanapala, head of Department of Disarmament Affairs, and Andrew Joseph, Associate Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

Ms. Coomaraswamy currently heads the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission and the International Centre for Ethnic Studies. She serves in many official and voluntary bodies, including the Judge Christie Weeramantry advisory committee on the code of professional practice of The Editors' Guild of Sri Lanka.

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