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Sonali Wanigabaduge wins South Asia Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity 2024
View(s):News 1st’s Sonali Wanigabaduge won the South Asia Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity 2024, representing Sri Lanka, at an award ceremony at the Tata Theatre, Mumbai, on October 9.
The awards, organised by Population First, a Mumbai-based social impact organisation that has been working for over two decades to promote gender sensitivity in media, recognised 14 gender-sensitivity awardees from 7 South Asian countries.
Sonali was recognised for her contribution towards creating a more inclusive and equitable society through her work across ‘The People’s Platform’, showcasing her engagement with multi-sectoral stakeholders on critical issues, from challenging myths and stereotypes surrounding gender to create attitudinal shifts in the way gender is viewed in society, to sexual and reproductive rights, demystifying masculinity, creating safer workplaces for women, mainstreaming LGBTIQ+ rights, gendered dimensions of mental health, mobilising the female vote and advocating for greater and more meaningful women’s participation in the political arena, and legal reform. Sonali is a lawyer by profession, and the Company Secretary of the Capital Maharaja Group.
Freelance journalist Aanya Wipulasena from Sri Lanka was also among the winners in recognition of her web-based reportage focusing on stories of women from the periphery.