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Download Statement 2019 අපේ‍්‍රල් 21 පාස්කු ඉරිදා දින මීගමුව කොළඹ සහ මඩකලපුවේ කිතුනු දේවස්ථානවලට සහ වෙනත් ස්ථානවලට එල්ල කරන ලද බිහිසුණුු ප‍්‍රහාර අපි දැඩි සේ හෙලාදකිමු. මෙම ප‍්‍රහාරයෙන් දිවි අහිමි වූ සහ තුවාලලත් සියළු දෙනාගේ පවුල්වල සාමාජිකයින් සහ ඥාතිමිත‍්‍රාදීන් වෙත අප, අපගේ බලවත් ශෝකය පලකර සිටිමු. සාමය සහ ජාතීන් අතර සහජීවනය පවත්වාගෙන යාමේ අගය වෙනුවෙන් … Continue reading 2019 පාස්කු ඉරු දින සිදු වූ ප‍්‍රචණ්ඩකාරී සිදුවීම් පිළිබද ස්තී‍්‍ර අයිතිවාසිකම් සංවිධානයහි ප‍්‍රකාශනය

Yesterday was the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances and in commemoration Right to Life organised a meeting for the families of the disappeared in Colombo. Around 300 family members, mostly women, of the disappeared gathered at the Viharamahadevi park. While they welcomed the Office of the Missing Persons the event also highlighted … Continue reading International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

The search is on for 1,000,000 women from all over the world whose stories will be uploaded to the WikiPeaceWomen website. The idea is to call international attention to the vital role played by women from all walks of life in challenging harmful established social/cultural boundaries, institutions and ideologies and in creating and promoting peace … Continue reading Call for nominations: WikiPeaceWomen website

Under the banner ‘Empowering women headed households – A building block in the reconciliation process’ a national conference for women headed households took place on the 10th December 2015 at the BMICH. Viluthu, Centre for Human Resource Development in partnership with FLICT organised this event which brought together women headed households from the North and … Continue reading A national conference for Women Headed Households

A large gathering attended the Veediye Virodaya movement protest also known as the Black Protest at the Colombo Fort railway station on the 10th of July 2015. Some of the demands made at the protest were for clean politics and good governance. Several women leaders from civil society organisations that spoke at the protest highlighted … Continue reading ‘Veediye Virodaya’ protest

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