Women and Media Collective  commemorated International Women’s Day and  Women’s History Month 2023 with a discussion on the,“Challenges in the midst of the current socio – economic & political context of Sri Lanka and potential solutions”,  Tuesday, March 21 st, 2023 from 9.30 a.m to 1.00 p.m at the Organization of Professionals Association (OPA) Hall … Continue reading The Women and Media Collective’s commemoration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month 2023

The Women and Media Collective held a Policy Dialogue on Unpaid Care Work on 31st March 2023 at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo from 9 am to 1.00 pm Economic development, expanding production, trade and services has undoubtedly brought more women into the labour force in Sri Lanka, albeit slowly. However, there is a marked … Continue reading RECOGNIZING, REDUCING AND REDISTRIBUTING WOMEN’S UNPAID CARE WORK IN SRI LANKA

The Women and Media Collective extends a warm invitation to the annual Short Film Festival under the Theme, ” Unpaid Care Work and Person’s with Disability” on the 4th of April 2023 at the National Film Cooperation – Tharangani Hall from 2.30 p.m to 6.30 p.m.  

Women and Media Collective cordially invites you to commemorate Women’s History month 2023 by joining our discussion on “Challenges in the midst of the current socio-economic & political context of Sri Lanka and potential solutions” on Tuesday the 21st of March, 2023. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Roshini Jayaweera, Senior Lecturer at the Department … Continue reading Invitation to the Women and Media Collective’s International Women’s Day Event

Click here to Read the full statement – International Women’s Day Sri Lankan Women Demand Democracy, Economic Justice and Freedom –  

The first training of a trainer’s workshop (TOT Workshop) of the Project on Empowering young women by raising awareness on feminism for 20 women selected from around 400 young women studying in universities using the training manual on Justice Equality, Feminism for Justice prepared to raise awareness about feminism was held on February 18th,  2023 at … Continue reading Project on Empowering Young Women by raising awareness on Feminism

27 February 2023  List of Issues (LOI) deliberations – Sri Lanka  Submitted by Kumudini Samuel on behalf of The Women and Media Collective and the Centre  for Poverty Analysis, Sri Lanka.   Thank you, Madam Chair and Working Group. Good Afternoon!  The issues raised here were not included in the State Party’s submission to CEDAW … Continue reading List of Issues (LOI) deliberations – Sri Lanka.

https://www.genderingviolentextremism.com/ Among the greatest challenges for the world today are the new waves of violent extremism (VE), currently manifesting in the Asia region, including cross border fertilization and spill overs and extra territorial responses to the rise in extremism. The emergence of populist authoritarianism in the region has also strengthened extremist violence particularly in Sri … Continue reading Women’s Agency and the Gendered Impact of Violence in Asia.

The month of March is Women’s History Month which coincides with International Women’s Day. Thus in celebration of IWD 2017, we are featuring some of the most remarkable women from Sri Lanka. These info-graphics are profiles of women and their contributions to society and to the feminist movement. Women’s history month is an annual declared … Continue reading Women’s History Month on IWD 2017

The photographs are from the public meeting and rally of when civil society took to the streets demanding that the new constitution guarantees economic justice and inclusion along with political freedoms and empowers people to secure economic policies that creates opportunities for all. Action for a peoples constitution is a collective of movements, networks, organisations … Continue reading In pictures: Action for a people’s constitution: public meeting and rally