සමාජ හා දේශපාලන ක‍්‍රියාකාරිනියක් වූ බදුල්ලේ නන්දා දිසානායක සහෝදරිය පසුගිය සැප්තැම්බර් 05 දින හදිසියේ අප අතරින් වෙන් වූවාය. බදුල්ල, හාලි ඇල ප‍්‍රදේශයේ පදිංචිකාරිනියක් වූ ඇය වසර 30කට ආසන්න කාලයක් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ කාන්තා බලමණ්ඩලයේ ප‍්‍රධාන කි‍්‍රයාකාරී සාමාජිකාවක් ලෙස කටයුතු කරමින් බදුල්ල දිස්ත‍්‍රික්කයේ දුෂ්කර මං මාවත් ඉදිකිරීම හා පිළිසකර කිරීම සඳහා පෙරමුණ ගත් සහෝදරියකි. බදුල්ල … Continue reading නන්දා දිසානායක සහෝදරිය සමාජ හා දේශපාලන සේවයෙන් සමුගනී

4 December 2014 The Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing +20 Review provided a historic opportunity for governments and civil society to undertake an honest review of the structural barriers that prevent gender equality and violate women’s human rights. The meeting was intended to improve accountability for implementation of the … Continue reading Civil Society Steering Committee statement on the Asian and Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

The second edition of the Women’s Forum Myanmar – ASEAN 2014 was held in Naypyidaw and Yangon on the 5th and 6th of December 2014. This programme was a joint effort of the Women’s Forum Myanmar together with Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society (WEFCOS) and the Government of Myanmar. There were over 800 … Continue reading Women’s Forum Myanmar – ASEAN 2014

16 November 2014 Women’s rights organisations and movements from Asia and the Pacific, comprising 480 women, gathered in Bangkok on 14-16 November 2014 to call on our governments for accountability for the commitments made almost twenty years ago in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action to advance gender equality and the rights of women … Continue reading Asia Pacific Beijing + 20 Civil Society Forum Statement

In an effort to delve into the issues that are surrounding women and women’s rights, Women and Media Collective will telecast a series of talk shows on local television channel Swarnavahini, every Thursday at 10 p.m. Audience members are invited to ask questions during the discussion from the selected panel members who are involved or … Continue reading WMC television talk show: Kadapatha

Governments report on gains, key challenges and opportunities Source: Isis International Ministers from the Asia and the Pacific region met today in the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing+20 Review to report on their States’ gains, key challenges, and opportunities to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women after … Continue reading How far have states in Asia Pacific gone to achieve gender equality?

Climate change, SOGI, sexual rights, and violence against women among contended issues Source: Isis International Governments at the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing+20 Review finalized discussing the draft ministerial outcomes document that will be approved at the end of the conference by member states of the Asia-Pacific region. State … Continue reading States Reach Consensus: Stand Alone Goal for Gender Eqaulity is Included

SOGI, climate change, and feminist organizations featured in discussions Source: Isis International The Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing+20 Review in Bangkok began today. Governments from the Asia and Pacific will listen to issues related to women equality and the empowerment of women for the next four days. At the … Continue reading The Asia-Pacific Review on Beijing+20 Begins

Women’s recommendations should be turned into government action Source: Isis International The Beijing+20 CSO Forum bringing together over 400 feminist women activists working on women’s rights in the Asia and Pacific region ended today. The Forum concluded with an outcome document adopted by consensus containing recommendations to the governments that will meet November 17-20 in … Continue reading “Our voices need to be heard loudly”

The Women and Media Collective together with the Asia Pacific Women’s Watch and South Asia Women’s Watch organised a South Asia Civil Society Consultation for Beijing+20 on the 16 and 17th of October 2014. Members of civil society organisations, women’s rights experts, state representatives and academics from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka discussed … Continue reading South Asia Consultation for Beijing + 20