The Women & Media Collective (WMC) and International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW AP) will be co-hosting a training of trainers (ToT), entitled CEDAW and Macroeconomics: Advancing Gender Equality through Feminist, Human Rights-Based Economic Advocacy. The ToT is a three-day in-person gathering in Negombo, scheduled for 5-7 July 2023. The training sessions will be conducted in English … Continue reading OPEN CALL – TOT Sessions CEDAW and Macroeconomics: Advancing Gender Equality through Feminist, Human Rights-Based Economic Advocacy.

The South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course on Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights and Peace, also known as the Sangat Month Long Course, is designed to offer clarity on and a greater understanding of concepts related to gender, justice, poverty, sustainable development, peace, democracy, and human rights. The course was founded in 1984. Thus far, … Continue reading XXV South Asian Feminist Capacity Building Course on Gender, Sustainable Livelihoods, Human Rights and Peace in Kathmandu, Nepal

This paper aims to provide an overview of contemporary advocacy by and research on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and other (LGBTQI+) community of Sri Lanka. The first part of the paper focuses on LGBTQI+ advocacy, looking at both the domestic and international levels and identifies what issues were raised at particular fora; … Continue reading Contemporary advocacy by and research on the LGBTQI+ community in Sri Lanka

This Guide provides an overview of major issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) Sri Lankans today. This Guide has been created as a resource for Members of the Sri Lankan Parliament (MPs) and especially the members of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Women and Gender. It is expected that MPs take the … Continue reading Guide on issues affecting LGBTI Sri Lankans

As Sri Lanka’s presidential elections of 2019 draws near, women’s organizations and civil society activists in the country came together to draft a women’s manifesto addressed to all presidential candidates. The women’s manifesto consists of women’s demands, as a call for candidates to take action on a number of topics as outlined in the draft … Continue reading Drafting of women’s manifesto for presidential candidates of 2019

Source: GenderIT.org Blog: eroticslka.wordpress.com By Subha Wijesiriwardena “Sexuality could indeed be spoken of, spoken of a great deal, but only in order to forbid it.” Michel Foucault (as interviewed by Bernard-Henri Lévy in 1977) Earlier this year, the telecommunications minister of Bangladesh declared a ‘war on pornography’, blocking access to around 20,000 websites and banning TikTok, the … Continue reading Private Parts: Obscenity and Censorship in the Digital Age

Women’s rights activists and women’s organisations were invited for a consultation to provide inputs to the national parallel report of the Beijing + 25. At the consultation specific areas were identified from the guided questionnaire provided by the NGO CSW in New York. The NGO parallel reports will be submitted to UN Women and fed … Continue reading Planning Meeting on the Preparation of a National Parellel Report for the Beijing+25 Review and the SDGs

Learn about OutRight Internationals LGBTIQ advocacy during the united nations general assembly. UNGA73 LGBTI Briefing Paper

Photograph: AFP The Women and Media Collective applauds and celebrates the long years of committed struggle that led to the reading down of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalized homosexual behavior between consenting adults. This outcome is the result of a long legal struggle, marked with a succession of petitions which were … Continue reading In celebration of decriminalizing section 377 in India