“Prevention rather than Punishment”

Message from the Chairperson

We at The NOC of Sri Lanka  have for the first time in this country taken  the initiative to bring about a “Sexual Harassment and Abuse Policy”  to safeguard  equally our athletes of  both male and female genders. The policy has been established to develop a culture of dignity and safety in sports and to promote a safe environment, a culture of respect and an athletic community that does not tolerate sexual harassment or misconduct of any sort.

    ' Receive and listenconfidentially to people who have been, or are supporting someone who has been, affected by sexual harassment or sexual misconduct

    ' offer protection and put in place a support mechanism appropriate to the situation

    ' where necessary, and with the explicit consent of the person affected, report the misconduct or harassament to the dicipilanry authorities.

    ' The link given below is a simple way forward to raise a complaint.

We at NOC Sri Lanka are grateful to the distinguished panel of personalities who have volunteered to serve on the complaints committee, forming an independent team of experts well versed in the subject matter. Let us be the first to make a difference in fighting this silent scourge and give our athletes a better tomorrow.

SafeSport Policy

Hotline to Report Complaint

Compliance Committee

 CARYLL TOZER

In cricketing terms, Caryll Tozer could be termed as a true all-rounder. As a young woman, it was athletics, but netball is her forte. Yet, once she saddled up her future, she diverted her action to people based activity and “Gender rights, sexual abuse” are two subjects that she carefully follows and have spoken on many forums. Now as a sportswoman of the past, Caryll is trying to get the right message to the athletes of the country about their rights.

JAYANTHI KURU-UTUMPALA

Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala is a women's rights activist with 15 years of experience in the field of women's rights and gender equality. She holds a Master’s Degree in Gender Studies from the University of Sussex. In May 2016, she became the first Sri Lankan person to summit Mount Everest. In recognition of this achievement, in August 2016, she was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador for Women's Rights by the Ministry of Women's Affairs. As an independent consultant, she is currently co-leading a local initiative aimed at addressing technology related violence against women and girls in Sri Lanka. She is also co-leading a global outcome on the prevention of gender-based violence for CARE International. Uttampala heads the ‘Sexual Harassment and Abuse Prevention’ Complaints Committee.

SHARANYA SEKARAM

Sharanya identifies herself as a writer, researcher and activist. She holds an LLB (Hons) and Masters in Conflict and Peace Studies. Currently she works with the Grassrooted Trustas their programme manager, Grasrooted is also a part of the partnership that runs bakamoono.lk of which Saranya is the English editor online portal in Sinhala, Tamil and English on Sexual and reproductive health and rights ensuring that people can access information in a language they understand.

DIORDRE CROOS MORAES

Dioardre is a qualified trainer on occupational ‘stress management’ and ‘critical incident stress management’. Professional training on mentoring and as the skills to be a mentor. She has worked with World Vision Lanka in their spiritual walk and initiating concepts such as ‘family first’ and ‘occupational stress management’.

NEDRA WICKREMASINGHE

Importantly she has an in-depth knowledge of Journalism and was a columnist with the Sunday Times and Hi Magazine. Worked as media consultant to ICES and help organize international peace building and constitution making international conference. She is also a certified Hospitality Educator, Graduate of Lucy Clayton, U.K., & Stamford College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At present she is the Executive Director of Arden Institute (Pvt) Ltd, and founder of Nedisa Corporate Social Interaction. A senior Training & Counselling Consultant, and has more than 25 years’ experience working with individuals and groups from variety of backgrounds. Her clientele includes blue-chip companies, professional associations, sports bodies, hotels and tourism facilities, hospitals, airline staff, cabin-crew, military and service personnel, and leading schools.

SHYAMALA GOMEZ

Shyamala Gomez is a Human Rights Lawyer and Women’s Rights Activist. She is the Executive Director of the Centre for Equality and Justice (CEJ), a women’s organization based in Colombo working on issues of post war and women. CEJ’s work focuses on reconciliation, transitional justice and taking women into account in these processes. She was Country Director at FOKUS WOMEN, the Country Office for FOKUS, a women’s organization based in Oslo for five years. Ms. Gomez taught law at University of Colombo for eight years and was also the Gender Advisor to the UN Office of the Resident Coordinator in Colombo from 2006 to 2011. She has published in the areas of violence against women, masculinities, migrant workers’ rights, women’s land rights, reproductive rights and more recently on women, peace and security. She has been a trainer on addressing sexual harassment in the workplace to several private sector companies. She is a Board member of Transparency International Sri Lanka since 2014. A Fulbright Scholar, she has an LLB from the University of Colombo and a Masters in Law from Georgetown University, Washington DC. She was also a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Boston, USA in 2001-2002.

DR. NIHAL DE SILVA

Prior to taking the Hippocratic Oath he excelled in athletics and is Ceylon Public School’s record holder – One mile in1962. He was the 1500metres Ceylon National Champions of 1962 and represented the country. With this backing he also received Observer Status at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Besides that, he has represented cricket in Honolulu, a certified Scuba Diver in the USA, Coach and Referee in Soccer in the USA. As a medical doctor he is a Doctor of Medicine – National University of Osaka, Japan – 1971. MPH (Master in Public health) – University of Hawaii – 1979, Fellowship – Stanford University Medical School, California – 1985.

NAUSHALYA RAJAPAKSHA

Naushalya Rajapaksha, an Attorney-at-Law by profession is a fervent individual who has been dynamically engaged in Human Rights Advocacy and Activism for the last decade. Her multitude of skills, education, and experience ranging from Law, Human Resource Management, World Affairs and Diplomacy, Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and Forensic Medicine and Toxicology enables her to undertake a multi-disciplinary approach to her work. 

For closer to a decade, her passion and purpose intertwined have strengthened her to be an inviolable force in the field of gender training and capacity building, policy advocacy, women empowerment, and preventing and responding to all forms of sexual and gender-based violence. Having founded the Yeheliya Foundation in 2018, she aims to continuously contribute her passion, proficiency, and practice to guide and empower her peers to undertake similar leadership to address these issues in a sustainable manner.

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Hasanah Cegu Isadeen is an Attorney-at-law, independent researcher and feminist activist. She is the co-founder of the Muslim Personal Law Reform Action Group (MPLRAG) which advocates for reforms on the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA). Since 2017, she has been working with women and girls in the north and east on intersecting issues relating to gender, sexuality, violence against women, disability, sexual and reproductive health and rights.  In 2019 she co-founded Priyam Collective, a network of young women from the North and East, committed to using a feminist lens to analyse the socio-cultural, economic and political contexts of Sri Lanka. She holds a Master's in Law (LLM) from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, specializing in women and children’s rights, international humanitarian law and banking law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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