Former Sunday Observer journalist Dimuthu Attanayake was honoured in Tokyo at the Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) by Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), for her investigative story “Domestic violence is cost of Climate Change for Sri Lankan women” for Contex powered by Thomson Reuters Foundation, in collaboration with the Pulitzer Centre.
Chosen from over 160 entries from across Asia and the Pacific, the winning articles illustrate the diverse impacts of climate change on people’s lives and livelihoods. Hosted by the ADBI, with the support of The Rockefeller Foundation, this year’s winners also included Disha Shetty of India, Sonam Lama Hyolmo of Nepal, Abu Siddique of Bangladesh, Ahmer Khan and Hannah Ellis-Petersen of India.
In 2018, for her reporting on the need for post-conflict reparations in Sri Lanka, Dimuthu was shortlisted for the Young Journalist Award by the Thomson Foundation and Foreign Press Association in London. She also won a reporting grant from the Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) for her work on the X-Press Pearl disaster.
