Category: State and politics

Women’s contribution to the new constitution making process

The Women and Media Collective organised a round of discussion on the new constitution making process and to see the possibilities where women’s groups can intervene. The Discussions were conducted in Batticaloa , Kurunegala and Colombo with the participation of women activists, civil society organization members, women affiliated to political parties, Trade union women and … Continue reading Women’s contribution to the new constitution making process

A national conference for Women Headed Households

Under the banner ‘Empowering women headed households – A building block in the reconciliation process’ a national conference for women headed households took place on the 10th December 2015 at the BMICH. Viluthu, Centre for Human Resource Development in partnership with FLICT organised this event which brought together women headed households from the North and … Continue reading A national conference for Women Headed Households

Press Conference: Ensuring a 30% increase for women at Local Government

Women and Media Collective held a press briefing on the 8th of September 2015 to demand for a 30% increase in women’s political representation at Local Government. Compared with the rest of South Asia, Sri Lanka is in an unfortunate position when considering women’s representation in politics. Local Government is the first step in entering … Continue reading Press Conference: Ensuring a 30% increase for women at Local Government

Political Representation of Women at Local Government – Towards ensuring 30% increase

2015 සැප්තැම්බර් 03 Click here to read full screen or download statement ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ කාන්තාවන්ට 1931 තරම් ඈත අතීතයේ සිට ඡුන්දය ප‍්‍රකාශ කිරීමේ අයිතිය ලැබී තිබෙන නමුත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පළාත් සභාවේ හෝ පළාත් පාලන ආයනයන්හි දේශපාලන නියෝජිතයින් වශයෙන් තේරීපත්වීමට ඔවුන්ට ලැබී ඇත්තේ ඉතා සීමිත ඉඩකඩකි. වර්තමාන රජය පළාත් පාලන ආයතනයන්හි ජනතා නියෝජිතයින් ගෙන් 30‍% ක ප‍්‍රමාණයක් … Continue reading Political Representation of Women at Local Government – Towards ensuring 30% increase

Campaign for Sound National Policies

A press briefing on the Campaign for Sound National Policies was held yesterday at the Organisation of Professional Associations in Colombo. Dr. Sepali Kottegoda, Executive Director of Women and Media Collective (WMC) was on the panel that discussed the proposed 35 Ministry Cabinet under the 19th Amendment and the proposed ministry clustering for an enhanced … Continue reading Campaign for Sound National Policies

Open Letter to all Political Parties – Key Pledges to be included in Manifestos

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

Media Breifing: Women’s political representation

As President Maitripala Sirisena’s draft of the 20th Amendment is scheduled to be presented to the cabinet today a special media briefing on the representation of women in politics was organised by the Women and Media Collective yesterday, 3rd of June, in Colombo. Followed by continued campaigning by women’s groups in the country a provision … Continue reading Media Breifing: Women’s political representation

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

Political Representation of Women: Ensuring 25% Increase

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