The Women and Media Collective undertook a Research Study to map Women’s Peace Activism in Sri Lanka for the strategic implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325. The study was conducted with the support from International Alert. The project involved identifying women’s groups and women’s peace initiatives in Sri Lanka, conducting a mapping of … Continue reading Consultation on Strategic Mapping of Women’s Peace Activism in Sri Lanka

January – April 2008 WMC launched this project in 2007 and it was continued in 2008 with the same objectives of increasing women’s knowledge of local government, building their capacity to contest local government elections, helping them enable good governance, etc. The observation teams continued the monitoring of selected Local Councils in Kurunegala, Monaragala and … Continue reading Strengthening Governance and Increasing Women’s Representation in Local Government (Kurunegala, Monaragala, Badulla)

Spearheaded and coordinated by Women and Media Collective (WMC), the proposed encounter group is a way of creating a space for people to address, discuss, confront, and mediate their ideas and experiences of subjective realities (of the conflict) in a genuine, truthful, and respectful manner. Initial discussions were conducted from the month of October to … Continue reading Encounter group-project

Women’s Organizations United to Celebrate International Women’s Day 2008
 
8th March 2008,Colombo
 
A network involving more than 25 women’s organizations under the name “Women’s Organizations United to Celebrate International Women’s Day” organized a symposium, a protest march and a demonstration on 8th March 2008. The symposium was held at the Mahaweli Centre in Colombo and discussed issues … Continue reading International Women’s Day 2008

The Women and Media Collective was part of the ‘We Women’ coalition in the month of January. ‘We Women’ is a coalition of individual women and women’s groups who came together in the event of Sri Lanka celebrating 60 years of independence in 2008. The objective of forming this coalition was to collectively and critically … Continue reading We Women campaign

WMC launched this project with the objectives of increasing women’s knowledge of local government, building their capacity to contest local government elections, helping them enable good governance, etc.
In total 14 Local Councils were observed in 3 districts by 25 women observers. Observation teams were selected from The Women’s Resource Centre in Badulla, the Uva Wellasa … Continue reading Strengthening Governance and Increasing Women’s Representation in Local Government (Kurunegala, Monaragala, Badulla)