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Tharushi Weerasinghe

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Tharushi Weerasinghe is an award-winning freelance journalist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, specialising in environmental issues, politics and social justice reporting. Her work has appeared in The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) and other regional publications.

Her climate journalism, including on-the-ground reporting from the United Nation’s climate summits COP27 (Egypt) and COP28 (UAE), have exposed state mismanagement of resources and ecologically damaging policy-making within Sri Lanka. She also covered the ‘Aragalaya’, the mass protests against the country’s government in 2022.

Tharushi has a bachelor of laws from the University of London and a certificate in journalism from the Manorama School of Communication (India). She has won several awards from The Editors Guild and Press Institute of Sri Lanka.

She speaks English and Sinhala.