2024-25 Tiruchelvam Fellow: Thyagi Ruwanpathirana
The Human Rights Program and the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Regulation College are thrilled to welcome the inaugural Neelan Tiruchelvam Fellow, Thyagi Ruwanpathirana.
Thyagi involves Harvard Regulation College from Amnesty Worldwide, the place she served as a South Asia Regional Researcher since 2018. She is going to spend the 2024 fall time period at Harvard Regulation College researching significant pathways to handle the belief deficit between the Sri Lankan State and communities affected by violence. Her undertaking will concentrate on exploring the groundwork wanted to create an enabling setting for a Fact Fee and an efficient post-conflict reconciliation course of in Sri Lanka.
Thyagi holds an LLB from the College of Warwick and an LLM in Human Rights from Birkbeck School, College of London. Previous to becoming a member of Amnesty Worldwide, Thyagi was the Nationwide Authorized Advisor for the Worldwide Fee of Jurists. She was additionally a Nationwide Analysis Guide with the Session Job Power on Reconciliation Mechanisms and a Researcher with the Authorized and Constitutional unit with the Centre for Coverage Options. Thyagi has labored on transitional justice and memorialization, enforced disappearances, reparations for battle associated sexual violence, counter-terrorism laws, and freedom of expression and affiliation.
In regards to the Neelan Tiruchelvam Fellowship
The Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Fellowship supplies alternatives for excellent authorized students and practitioners of Sri Lankan background to undertake analysis, writing, and scholarly engagement on themes associated to human rights in Sri Lanka and South Asia. The Fellowship is in honor of the late Neelan Tiruchelvam, a Sri Lankan peace and human rights activist, lawyer, scholar and politician.
