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Internship opportunity at Women and Media Collective
We are currently looking for a recent graduate or undergraduate with media experience to assist an ongoing project on Unpaid care work in Sri Lanka. The ideal candidate should have capacity in designing and social media messaging and fluent in either Sinhala or Tamil languages. Duration – 3 months Commencement date – immediate Interested applicants … Continue reading Internship opportunity at Women and Media Collective
International Women’s Day 2020
International Women’s Day 2020, organised by the Women and Media Collective on the 5th of March at 9:30 AM, at the Kumarathunga Munidasa Studio, SLBC. Panel of speakers : Professor Deepika Udagama Professor Vishaka Suriya Bandara Senior Lecturer, Sanjeewani Rupasinha Lawyer, Radika Gunarathne Women Activist, Velayudan Jayachithra
WMC short film competition 2020
Send in your scripts for the WMC short film competition 2020 The themes for this year are: Housework is also work The value of unpaid care work Download the application form here Description on Unpaid care work Short film on Unpaid care work : Application form Description on Unpaid care work Short film on Unpaid care … Continue reading WMC short film competition 2020
WMC mourns the demise of Emeritus Prof. Swarna Jayaweera
WMC mourns the demise of Professor Emeritus Swarna Jayaweera who left us on the 5th of January 2020. She was a revered researcher, teacher, mentor to all and a staunch advocate for women’s rights. We extend our prayer, love and support. May she rest in peace. Our condolences. Professor Swarna Jayaweera has made a significant … Continue reading WMC mourns the demise of Emeritus Prof. Swarna Jayaweera
Women in Unpaid Care Work
Without designating care work as women’s work let’s recognize all care work done by women during the Christmas and new year season. Let’s value care work. Let’s share the work equally.
Civil Society Statement on Beijing+25 Review Intergovernmental Meeting
27 November, 2019 Bangkok ThailandV Thank you, Chair. My name is Vica Larasati. I speak on behalf of over 300 feminists from 35 countries who attended the Asia and the Pacific Civil Society Forum and the Young Feminists’ Forum for the review of 25 years of implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. … Continue reading Civil Society Statement on Beijing+25 Review Intergovernmental Meeting
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සුමිකා පෙරේරා article link Sunday Lankadeepa ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ 8 වැනි විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරණයට තව ඇත්තේ දින කීපයකි. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් වූ දේශපාලන සංවාද, කතාබහ, සාකච්ඡුා කරලියට පැමිණියේ නාම යෝජනා බාරදීමටත් පෙර සිටය. මෙයින් වඩාත්ම වැදගත් වන්නේ ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදය ආරක්ෂා කර ගැනීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන සමාජ සහ දේශපාලන කතිකාවයි. මේ කතිකාව අදවනවිට ඒකාධිපතිවාදය ද ප‍්‍රජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදය ද යන මාතෘකාව දක්වා කැටිවී … Continue reading සමාජ ප්‍රරජාතන්ත‍්‍රවාදය දිනවමු !
Statement: Women’s rights activists respond to recent events in relation to women and justice in Sri Lanka
9 November 2019 We as women’s rights activists, feminist activists and academics, engaged in issues of social justice and human rights, wish to express our continuing concern regarding two critical issues we face in Sri Lanka: the failures of the justice system in responding to grave acts of violence committed against women and other marginalized … Continue reading Statement: Women’s rights activists respond to recent events in relation to women and justice in Sri Lanka
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