Since May 2011, the WMC initiated a discussion with NCW on the importance of conducting a meeting to discuss strategies to implement the CEDAW Concluding Observations at the national level. The NCW agreed to hold a meeting with various government officials and was willing to invite selected NGOs as well in order to make it … Continue reading Meeting with National Committee on Women (NCW) – Consultation with the CEDAW Concluding Observations

Since May 2011, the WMC initiated a discussion with NCW on the importance of conducting a meeting to discuss strategies to implement the CEDAW Concluding Observations at the national level. The NCW agreed to hold a meeting with various government officials and was willing to invite selected NGOs as well in order to make it … Continue reading Meeting with National Committee on Women (NCW) – Consultation with the CEDAW Concluding Observations

On 16th August, the Mothers & Daughters of Lanka a network of progressive women’s organizations conducted a members meeting, particularly with the aim of disseminating the Concluding Observations and discussing future strategies.

Following on from the ‘Global Consultation on the Application of Women’s Human Rights framework on the issues of Women in Conflict Situations’ held in Colombo in October 2010, the Colombo Group which includes WMC continued to work closely with the CEDAW Committee assisting with the elaboration of a General Recommendation to CEDAW on women and … Continue reading International Advocacy for CEDAW General Recommendation on Armed Conflict and Women

එළඹෙන පළාත් පාලන ආයතන සඳහා පැවැත්වෙන ඡුන්ද විමසීමේ දී ස්ත‍්‍රීන් සඳහා ලබාදෙන නාමයෝජනා සහ ඡුන්ද ප‍්‍රමාණය වැඩි කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියේ ක‍්‍රියාකාරකමක් වශයෙන් කාන්තාව හා මාධ්‍ය සාමූහිකය දේශපාලන පක්ෂ සාමාජිකයින් සමඟ රැුස්වීම් ගණනාවක් පැවැත් වූහ. ඉදිරියේ එළඹෙන පාළාත් පාලන ආයතන ඡුන්ද විමසීමේ දී ස්ත‍්‍රීන්ට ලබාදෙන නාමයෝජනා ප‍්‍රමාණය වැඩිකරන මෙන් පක්ෂ නායකත්වයෙන් ඉල්ලීම් කෙරිණ. ඔවුන් මුණගැසීමේ අනෙක් අරමුණ … Continue reading Meetings with members of political parties

As part of a project to increase the percentage of nominations and votes for women in the upcoming Local Government elections, WMC held several meetings with members of political parties in order to advocate the political parties and party leaders to nominate more women for the upcoming local government election. Another objective was to discuss … Continue reading Meetings with members of political parties

The activity plans of the district level member organizations of ACTFORM were discussed.   The leaders from the district level organizations stated that programmes to gather domestic workers together are being carried out in Gampaha, Kurunegala, Chilaw and Kandy and they stressed the need for district level workshops to be held for their benefit.   … Continue reading ACTFORM Committee Meeting

The constitution of ACTFORM was discussed at this meeting and it was decided that necessary amendments would be made. It was decided that the current work plan of ACTFORM would be discussed in a larger forum. It was decided that at the same forum, the planned activities with regard to Convention No. 189 of the … Continue reading Core Group Meeting

The main discussion at this committee meeting was the current activity plan of ACTFORM. At the same time the 2011 work plan was drafted. The need for a good setting in which to carry out the work was also discussed.   Follow up work   It was decided that two lawyers would be invited to … Continue reading ACTFORM Committee Meeting

Despite an extremely favourable Human Development Index (HDI) for women, women’s representation in elected political bodies in Sri Lanka is abysmally low. It is 5.8% in parliament, 4.1% in provincial councils and only 1.8% in local government. Nominations for women by the major political parties have remained almost stagnant in the last 50 years and … Continue reading Where are the women in Local Government?