Rosy Senanayake Mrs. World 1984
birth_place = Colombo, Sri Lankaoccupation = Politician
title = Mrs World 1985,
Miss Asia Pacific International 1981,
Miss Sri Lanka 1980
spouse = Athula Senanayake
children = Kanishka
Bernadine Rose Senanayake nee Ramanayake (Rosy Senanayake) former Sri Lankan High Commissioner for Malaysia.She is currently the nominee of her party as candidate for Parlimentry elections for the Colombo West electorate.
Ms. Senanayake was the winner in the first Mrs. World competition in 1984. She is also a former Miss Asia Pacific International and competed as Miss Sri Lanka in Miss World 1980. She was appointed as a United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador in 1998.
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.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 day-time television program she has become an icon for womens causes.
She has been married to her husband, Athula for the past 25 years and has three children Kanisha(23), Thisakya(19)and Radhya(17).
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