Rosy Senanayake
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| Rosy Senanayake | |
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| Born | Colombo, Sri Lanka |
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| Occupation | Politician |
| Title | Mrs World 1985, Miss Asia Pacific International 1981, Miss Sri Lanka 1980 |
| Spouse | Athula Senanayake |
| Children | Kanishka Thisakya Radhya |
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[1] Sri Lankan High Commissioner for Malaysia. She is currently the nominee of her party as candidate for Parlimentry elections for the Colombo West electorate.[2]
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.[3] 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.
[edit] 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)
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[edit] External links
- Biographies of UN Advocates and Goodwill Ambassadors
- Rosy Senanayake felicitated
- PM on two-day visit to Malaysia
- MERCY Malaysia continues to provide medical and humanitarian aid for Sri Lanka flood victims
- Channa and Upuli Performing in Malaysia
- Memories in Asia
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