The Vote for Women campaign was launched on the 5th of August to coincide with Sri Lanka’s upcoming General Elections scheduled to be held on the 17 of August 2015. There are total of 6,151 candidates from 21 political parties and independent groups competing for the 225 seats in parliament. Of the total candidates nominated, … Continue reading Vote for Women Campaign Launch
Source: Sunday Observer Ensure women’s rights and gender equality By Women and Media Collective There are selected issues concerning the rights of women that all political parties are requested to commit to address: Independent National Commission on Women There is an urgent need to set up a strong formal institution with legal powers to address … Continue reading To all political parties: These are our concerns
Source: Sunday Observer Ensure women’s rights and gender equality By Women and Media Collective There are selected issues concerning the rights of women that all political parties are requested to commit to address: Independent National Commission on Women There is an urgent need to set up a strong formal institution with legal powers to address … Continue reading To all political parties: These are our concerns
13 ජූලි 2015 පහත අත්සන් තබා ඇති ශ‍්‍රි ලංකාවේ සිවිල් සමාජ ක‍්‍රියාධරයන් සහ සංවිධාන සියළු දේශපාලන පක්ෂ මහ මැතිවරණය වෙනුවෙන් ප‍්‍රකාශයට පත් කරනු ලබන සිය පක්ෂයේ මැතිවරණ ප‍්‍රකාශනයේ අප රටේ සංහිදියාව සමගිය , සාමය සහ සංවර්ධනය සාක්ෂාත් කර ගැනීම සදහා ඇතුලත් කළ යුතුවන සුවිශේෂ මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් පිලිබඳ කරුණු සම්බන්ධයෙන් අවධානය යොමු කිරීමට කැමැත්තෙමු. 2015 ජනවාරි … Continue reading Open Letter to all Political Parties – Key Pledges to be included in Manifestos
13th July, 2015 We the undersigned Sri Lankan civil society activists and organizations, wish to bring to your attention human rights issues of pivotal importance to reconciliation, unity, peace and prosperity in our country, which we strongly believe should be included in your party manifestos for the forthcoming General Election. During the campaign period leading … Continue reading Open Letter to all Political Parties – Key Pledges to be included in Manifestos
The Women and Media Collective together with other women’s organisations have been campaigning to increase the representation of women at local, provincial and national level for over 15 years. The current electoral reform process, which is a measure to strengthen representative democracy, should provide an opportunity to increase women’s representation in the Parliament of Sri … Continue reading Discussion on the 20th Amendment to the constitution with CAFFE, Sri Lanka
The Women and Media Collective together with other women’s organisations have been campaigning to increase the representation of women at local, provincial and national level for over 15 years. The current electoral reform process, which is a measure to strengthen representative democracy, should provide an opportunity to increase women’s representation in the Parliament of Sri … Continue reading Discussion on the 20th Amendment to the constitution with CAFFE, Sri Lanka
දැනට කාකච්ඡුාවට බඳුන් වෙමින් පවතින 20 වන ආණ්ඩුක‍්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය සඳහා ස්ත‍්‍රී කණ්ඩායම් විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන යෝජනාවලිය. ස්ත‍්‍රීන්ට ද ඇතුළුව ශ්රී ලංකාවට 1931 දී සර්ව ජන ඡුන්ද බලය හිමිවීම පිළිබඳව අපි ආඩම්බර වෙමු. එහෙත් පවතින යථාර්ථය නම්, පාර්ලිමේන්තුව, පළාත් සභා හා පළාත් පාලන ආයතන වල මහජන නියෝජිතයන් විමට ස්ත‍්‍රීන්ට ප‍්‍රමාණවත් ඉඩකඩක් නොලැබීමයි. මෙම අඩු නියෝජනය … Continue reading Political Representation of Women: Ensuring 25% Increase
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY WOMEN’S GROUPS TO THE 20TH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION CURRENTLY UNDER DISCUSSION Women in Sri Lanka have had the right to vote from as early as 1931, but very little opportunity to become the people’s elected political representatives—in either Parliament or in Provincial or Local Government. This fact has been highlighted worldwide … Continue reading Political Representation of Women: Ensuring 25% Increase
2015 වසරේ ජාත්‍යන්තර කාන්තා දිනය සැමරිම සඳහා, ශ්රී ලංකාවේ කාන්තා අයිතීන් පිළිබද වැඩ කරන කාන්තා කණ්ඩායම් මාර්තු 9 වන දා කොළඹ දී එක් රැස් විය. දේශපාලනයේ කාන්තා නියෝජනය ඉහළ නැංවිම සඳහා අඩුතරමින් 25% ක කෝටාවක් සියලු ම දේශපාලන තලයන් සඳහා හඳුන්වා දෙන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් සහ දින 100 වැඩසටහනේ පොරොන්දුවක් වු කාන්තාවට සම අයිතින් ලබා දීමේ … Continue reading IWD 2015: International Women’s Day March