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 document.

The women present drafted several action points pertaining to areas such as politics, constitutional reform, human rights and legal reform, information and hate-speech, language and culture, development and livelihood, ecological justice, labour and work, violence against women, sexual reproductive health and rights and institutions and policy.

Women from Colombo, Badulla, Galle, Kurunegala, Matara, Kandy and the North and East came together on the 4th of October to put together action points which they look forward to seeing in the coming months under the new ruling government.