Jensila Majeed is the Managing Trustee of Community Trust Fund in Puttalam province, a FORUM-ASIA member in Sri Lanka. The Trust oversees a number of programs on minority and women's issues, including women's rights, peace building, relief work, working with young people, and mine-risk education in the North and East. Majeed's own particular focus is on uniting the Muslim and Tamil communities in her province.
Jensila
Majeed is the Managing Trustee of Community Trust Fund in Puttalam
province, a FORUM-ASIA member in Sri Lanka. The Trust oversees a number
of programs on minority and women's issues, including women's rights,
peace building, relief work, working with young people, and mine-risk
education in the North and East. Majeed's own particular focus is on
uniting the Muslim and Tamil communities in her province (source ).
On 10 March 2010, she was awarded the 2010 International Women of
Courage Award by Senator Hillary Clinton.
On 1
March 2010, Secretary Clinton announced the 10 winners of this year's
International Women of Courage (IWOC) award. On March 10, Secretary
Clinton presented the awards to the honorees at the Department of State.
The awardees are: Shukria Asil (Afghanistan), Col. Shafiqa
Quraishi (Afghanistan), Androula Henriques (Cyprus), Sonia Pierre
(Dominican Republic), Shadi Sadr (Iran), Ann Njogu (Kenya), Dr. Lee
Ae-ran (Republic of Korea), Jansila Majeed (Sri Lanka), Sister Marie
Claude Naddaf (Syria), and Jestina Mukoko (Zimbabwe).
The annual International Women of Courage Award was started
in March 2007 to recognize women around the globe who have shown
exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for women's rights and
advancement. This is the only award within the Department of State that
pays tribute to outstanding women leaders worldwide. It recognizes the
courage and leadership shown as they struggle for social justice and
human rights.
"These ten women have overcome personal adversity, threats,
arrest, and assault to dedicate themselves to activism for human
rights," said Melanne Verveer, the State Department's first ever
Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues. "From striving to give
more voice to politically underrepresented women in Afghanistan to
documenting human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, these heroic individuals
have made it their life's work to increase freedom and equality in the
world." ( Source )
