Women and Media Collective’s Sinhala magazine, EYA, is now online https://eyawmc.wordpress.com/

Contribute your articles for the next Options publication by Women and Media Collective. The concept, ‘Women and Religion’, will focus on women and religion from a feminist perspective. Send in your articles by the 30 June 2014.

Women Claiming Rights: Using normative frameworks of UNSCR 1325 & CEDAW

The second publication of Eya featuring Sunila Abeysekara

Some Insights from three Conflict Affected Districts in Sri Lanka By Dr. Sepali Kottegoda In May 2003, when a Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) had been signed between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies prepared “The Assessment of Needs in the Conflict Affected Areas” which highlighted … Continue reading Are Traditional Midwives History ?

This report is based on a three-year research project on gender in peacebuilding, which involved field research in four countries (Burundi, Colombia, Nepal and Uganda), with a thematic focus on four areas of peacebuilding: • access to justice (including formal, informal, traditional and transitional justice); • economic recovery (especially of ex-combatants and of returnee populations … Continue reading Gender Rethinking, Gender Peacebuilding 2014

Study on Women Affected by Conflict in Post War Sri Lanka: Selected cases of Marginalisation and Poverty, Female Headed Households, Female Ex-Combatants, Land Rights and Domestic Violence.

This study by the Women and Media Collective is on Sri Lankan returnee migrant women and, brings to life the stories of thirty women from the Kurunegala District in Sri Lanka. The women had been employed as domestic workers in West Asian Countries and have since returned home. The women speak of  how the decisions … Continue reading Transforming lives: The story of returning migrant workers

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