Women’s Manifesto: Parliamentary Elections 2020
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Safeguard democracy, use your vote and use it wisely ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදය ආරක්ෂා කරන්න, ඔබේ ඡුන්දය ඥාණාන්විතව භාවිතා කරන්න. ஜனநாயகத்தைப் பாதுகாக்கவும், உங்கள் வாக்குகளைப் பயன்படுத்துவதுடன், அதனைப் புத்திசாலித்தனமாகப் பயன்படுத்தவும்.
මූලාශ්රය: ලංකාදීප ‘‘එළුවා තෙමෙනවා කියා කොටියා අඬනවා වගේ’’ කියා කියමනක් තිබේ. 2019 නොවැම්බර් 16 වෙනිදා පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ශී්ර ලංකාවේ 7 වැනි ජනාධිපතිවරයා/වරිය තෝරා ගැනීමේ ජනාධිපතිවරණ ප්රචාරක රැස්වීම් වේදිකාවලින් සහ ජනමාධ්යවලින් ඇසෙන, පෙනෙන කතා අසන මේ රටේ ජනතාවට එසේ සිතෙන්නට ද බැරි නැත. එහෙත් මේ රටේ ජනතාව එළුවන් වී සිටීමට සූදානම්ද? මැතිවරණ කොමිසම සහ එහි සභාපතිවරයාගේ … Continue reading කාන්තාවන්ගේ පරමාධිපත්ය බලය සාමය සහ සංහිඳියාව වෙනුවෙන්
Members from the Women and Media Collective, the women’s resource Center in Kurunegala, Viluthu in the North and East and the women’s Development Center in Badulla met with the Elections Commissioner and the Minister of Local Government and Provincial Councils, Hon. Faizer Mustapha to discuss the assurance of containing the 25% quota for women in … Continue reading Women’s groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota
The Women and Media Collective (WMC) attended the meeting organised by the Ministry of Provincial Councils and Local Government on the 27th of February, to discuss the implementation of the 25% quota for women in local government. WMC together with other women’s organisations in the country met with Hon. Minister Faizer Mustapa to ensure that … Continue reading Minister responds to implementation of women’s quota
Context The next round of elections to local government in Sri Lanka is scheduled for February 10, 2018. The election is significant for many reasons. It is being held after several postponements; it is the first elections to be held by the National Unity government since it’s election to power in August 2015; it is … Continue reading The 25% Quota for Women in Local Government
Letter to the Elections Commission, leaders of Political Parties and the Speaker of the House of Parliament DO NOT Default on Implementing the 25% Legally Binding Quota for Women We the undersigned Civil Society Organisations, including women’s groups, and women’s rights advocates are writing to call on the Chairman and Members of the Election Commission … Continue reading Media Release: Letter to the Elections Commission, leaders of Political Parties and the Speaker of the House of Parliament
A meeting to discuss the Local Authorities Elections Amendment Act within the purview of the newly introduced provisions for women’s representation in Local Government was organised by the Women and Media Collective, on Friday 6th of October 2017. The new electoral system and the 25% quota allocation for women were discussed at length among women … Continue reading Discussion on LA Act. – 25% quota for women
පළාත් පාලන ආයතන තුළ ස්ත්රීන්ගේ නියෝජනය 25%කින් වැඩිකරන බවට රජය විසින් පොරොන්දුවක් ලබාදෙන ලදී. ඒ අනුව පසුගිය කාලය පුරා මේ ඉල්ලීම තහවුරු කරගැනීම පිණිස අප කාන්තා ක්රියාකාරිනියන් විසින් අදාළ දේශපාලන නායකයින් සමඟ සාකච්ඡාවට ද ලක්කරන ලදී. පසුගිය අගෝස්තු 25 වන දින පළාත් පාලන ආයතන ඡන්ද විමසීම් සංශෝධන පනත සම්මතවීමත් සමඟ ඒ පිළිබඳ කාන්තාව සහ මාධ්ය … Continue reading Comments on the Amended Local Authorities Elections Act (Sinhala)