Congratulations to all those who got selected as scriptwriters for the WMC short film competition 2020. This years theme for the competition is on Unpaid Care Work. Here are the selected script writers. We will see you at the workshop. 1 A.R. FATHIMA ASRIN 2 ANURA DESHAPRIYA WIJESINGHE 3 CHANDRIKA MUNASINGHE 4 GNANAMATHANGI SELVARASA 5 … Continue reading Shortlisted scriptwriters: WMC Short Film competition 2020
Wishing everyone a happy, safe and blessed Ramadan! Eid Mubarak!
Even though we’re all staying at home to reduce exposure during this global pandemic you may have noticed that the usual housework has doubled. The women in the household shouldn’t be made to handle all the chores. Everyone in the house should contribute and do their part. Even though we aren’t able to celebrate the … Continue reading Women also have only two hands
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
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.
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
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
MigrantForum Asia Mfa in collaboration with the Solidarity Centre South Asia office organized the South Asia Consultation on the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) on 4-6 July 2019 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Building on previous national consultations on the GCM and SDGs as well as the recently adopted Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration … Continue reading South Asia Consultation on the Global Compact for Migration
The 25th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference and the formulation of the Beijing Platform for Action falls in 2020. Since 1995, at 5 year intervals governments as well as civil society have been engaged in reviewing the implementation of the BPFA towards assessing achievements relating to ensuring women’s rights and gender equality in respective … Continue reading Sri Lanka parallel report for Beijing+25 review process
මූලාශ්‍රය: සමබිම ඔබත් සාමාජිකත්වය දැරූ සංහිඳියාව උදෙසා ප්‍රවිචාරණ කාර්ය සාධක බලකා වාර්තාවේ නිර්දේශයන් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ආණ්ඩුව මේ වන විට දක්වා තිබෙන ප්‍රගතිය ගැන සෑහීමකට පත් වෙන්න පුළුවන්ද? සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම අපිට සෑහීමකට පත්වෙනවා කියන්න බැහැ. මොකද මේ කාර්ය සාධක බලකාය පත් කරන්නේ ආණ්ඩුව විසින්මයි. මේ ක්‍රියාවලිය ඇතුලේ සිවිල් සමාජ නියෝජිතයන් හිටියත් මේ ක්‍රියාවලිය සිදුවෙන්නෙ ආණ්ඩුවේම අවශ්‍යතාවය … Continue reading Samabima Supplement: මට ඕන ඇත්ත දැන ගන්න