Expertise in: Transitional Justice & Minority Rights  

Ruki is a Sri Lankan human rights defender, writer, and educator involved in campaigning and advocacy in Sri Lanka and Asia. Focus areas have included transitional justice, freedom of expression, human rights defenders, the UN human rights system, minority rights, religious freedom, refugees, internal displacement, enforced disappearances, political prisoners, etc. Presently, he is a Consultant to the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR), in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Former chairman of Rights Now Collective for Democracy, the executive committee of Free Media Movement of Sri Lanka, and Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA).