She's A Lawyer ... A Thespian ... And Now A State Department 'Woman Of Courage'
The U.S. Department of State has honored Sri Lanka's Marini de Livera for her innovative combination of drama and legal work to aid women and children.
Marini de Livera's plays are not for the faint of heart.
In her home country of Sri Lanka, the pro bono lawyer has found that crimes against women and children often take place behind closed doors â in homes, orphanages and schools. With her traveling theater group, de Livera seeks to shed light on the human rights abuses in her country by putting the violence on stage, front and center.
"There are beautiful laws in the law books," she says. "But when I went out to the slums, to the rural areas, to conflict-ridden areas,
