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
On national level, the campaign consisted of newspaper, television and radio advertisements and also a hoarding. Newspaper advertisements – Two advertisements were published in Sinhala and Tamil newspapers from the 8th – 15th March. Television advertisements - This campaign went on for one week with Sinhala advertisements (http://youtu.be/vQClplKA5JQ) broadcast on Swarnawahini, ITN and Sirasa TV and … Continue reading Vote for a Woman Campaign
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?
කාන්තාව හා මාධ්ය සාමූහිකය ඉදිරියේ එළඹෙන පළාත් පාලන ඡුන්ද විමසීමට ඉදිරිපත් වන ස්ත්රී අපේක්ෂිකාවන් හඳුන්වා දීම සඳහා 2011 පෙබරවාරි මාසයේ 9 වැනි දා පුවත් පත් සාකච්ඡුාවක් කොළඹ සිනමන් ග්රෑන්ඞ් හොටලයේ දී පැවැත් වූයේය. කුරුණෑගල, මොණරාගල, බදුල්ල, ගාල්ල සහ ත්රිකුණාමලය යන දිස්ත්රික්ක පහෙන් තෝරාගන්නා ලද ස්ත්රී අපේක්ෂිකාවන් හඳුන්වා දීමේ සහ ඔවුන්ට ඡුන්දය දීමට පෙළඹවීමේ අරමුණෙන් කාන්තාව … Continue reading National Level Press Briefing
WMC held a press briefing at Cinnamon Grand, Colombo on the 9th of February 2011 to present the female candidates who will contest for the upcoming Local Government elections in the country. These women are those who were presented by the Women and Media Collective with the aim of increasing nominations and votes for women … Continue reading National Level Press Briefing
