Rosy Senanayake

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name = Rosy Senanayake


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birth_place = Colombo, Sri Lanka
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occupation = Politician
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title = Mrs World 1985,
Miss Asia Pacific International 1981,
Miss Sri Lanka 1980
spouse = Athula Senanayake
children = Kanishka
Thisakya
Radhya
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Bernadine Rosemarie Senanayake nee Fernando Ramanyake (Rosy Senanayake) is a working committee member of Sri Lanka's opposition United National Party in Sri Lanka and a former [ [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-12754655_ITM Rosy send-off for Senanayake ..BY: By Ranjeetha Pakiam. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (July, 2004) ] ] Sri Lankan High Commissioner for Malaysia. She is currently the nominee of her party as candidate for Parlimentry elections for the Colombo West electorate. [http://pgoh13.free.fr/wisma_beauty.html]

Beauty queen

Rosy Senanayake was the winner in the first Mrs World competition in 1985. She is also a former Miss Asia Pacific International 1981 and competed as Miss Sri Lanka in Miss World 1980.

Community work

Her professional life has been devoted to promoting Sri Lanka, and particularly Sri Lankan trade, to the world. She promotes the rights of women and adolescents in her country, and as a United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador she has, through the National Youth Services Council, promoted reproductive health services for young people and for migrant women workers in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone. [ [http://www.unfpa.org/news/coverage/2003/may24-30-2003.htm UNFPA in the News: Week of ] ] She has worked with the private sector to provide reproductive health services to employees of private companies in Sri Lanka, and recently starred in a film about reproductive health. Through her popular daytime television program she has become an icon for women's causes.

In 1998 she was appointed as a United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador. Rosy Senanayake was appointed as Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia in 2002, which she held until 2004.

Family

She has been married to her husband, Athula for the past 25 years and has three children Kanishka(23), Thisakya(19) and Radhya(17)

References

See also

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Non_Career_Diplomats Sri Lankan Non Career Diplomats]

External links

* [http://www.un.org/advocates/2000/bios.htm Biographies of UN Advocates and Goodwill Ambassadors]
* [http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/05/15/new22.html Rosy Senanayake felicitated]
* [http://www.dailynews.lk/2003/09/08/new40.html PM on two-day visit to Malaysia]
* [http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/OCHA-64BPHT MERCY Malaysia continues to provide medical and humanitarian aid for Sri Lanka flood victims]
* [http://community.sinhalajukebox.org/article.php?story=20031209081440330 Channa and Upuli Performing in Malaysia]
* [http://books.google.lk/books?id=MrBi0ghiZN0C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=rosy+senanayake+german+memories+in+asia&source=web&ots=-Q_PZ5w88E&sig=bWRVb99DZkqnuG8vlQL3TSeMNLI&hl=en Memories in Asia]