Wishing everyone a safe and healthy Vesak season!
Until the world is free from this pandemic, we should continue to follow the recommended health guidelines to stay safe. Wishing everyone a safe and healthy Vesak season!🙏
Until the world is free from this pandemic, we should continue to follow the recommended health guidelines to stay safe. Wishing everyone a safe and healthy Vesak season!🙏
Women and Media Collective held a Children’s art Competition on “What I think of Care Work” All photographed paintings in this video are for online exhibition purposes only. If anyone wishes to republish, reuse or recreate social media posts, please credit the artist in question and the Women and Media Collective. ———- In celebration of … Continue reading WMC Children’s Art Exhibition 2021
The WMC short film festival and children’s art exhibition award ceremony was held on 29th March 2021 at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. The theme of the short films and art work submitted was on Unpaid Care Work.
Statement on the Discourse Surrounding Bhagya Abeyratne March 2021 by WMC Download statement Sinhala, English, Tamil Several factors surrounding the discourse of Bhagya Abeyratne and her statement on environmental destruction on national television have been a cause for concern. We, as the Women and Media Collective, an organisation engaged in advocating for social justice and … Continue reading Statement on the discourse surrounding Bhagya Abeyratne
1st Place – Ai Wade 2nd Place – Unlimited 3rd Place – House Wife Jury Awards 1. Lesson of the cup Short Listed 1. House Husband Velay the job Pathivirathai A Dream Chandrawankaya
Zoom chat: Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka with Manik Gunarathne ‘‘බොහෝ ආබාධිත ළමයි බලාගන්න දෙමවුපියන් කියන දෙයක් තමයි අපිට කලින් මේ ළමයි මැරිලා යනවානම් හොඳයි කියන එක. හේතුව ඔවුන්ගෙන් පසුව මේ ආබාධිත ළමයි බලාගන්න කෙනෙක් නැහැ, ලංකාවේ ඒකට ක්රමයකුත් නැහැ’’ – මැණික් ගුණරත්න
Eranga Meegasdeniya interviews Yogeshwari Krishnan, Secretary, of the Working Women’s Front. She is also part of the women’s trade union in the country. “රටේ නීති සහ ප්රතිපත්ති ඒ ඒ කාලය අනුව වෙනස් කරන එක යුතුකමක්. එහෙම නැතිව කඳුකරයේ ස්ත්රීන්ගේ ප්රශ්න ගැන කතා කරලා විතරක් සමාජ සංවර්ධනය ඇති කරන්න බැහැ.” – යෝගේෂ්වරී ක්රිෂ්ණන්, ප්රධාන ලේකම්, වැඩ … Continue reading Zoom chat: Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka with Yogeshwari Krishnan
A chat with Dr. Sepali Kottegoda, Director Programmes, WMC, on the impacts of COVID-19 on Unpaid Carework in Sri Lanka. Moderated by Eranga Meegasdeniya.
“பெண்கள் வீட்டில் செய்யும் சகல வேலைகளிலிருந்து ஒரு வேலையும் செய்யாமல் ஒரு கிழமை இருந்தால் நாட்டுக்கு என்ன நடக்கும்?” ஊதியமற்ற வேலைச் சுமையை அதிகரித்த கொரோனா – இலங்கையில் ஊதியமற்ற பராமரிப்பு வேலை பற்றிய zoom கலந்துரையாடல்
Women, Quota and the Press: Media coverage of the 2018 Local Government elections A research on newspaper reporting around the historic 25% quota for women in Local Government from September 2017 – December 2018 Click here to download