{"id":9357,"date":"2018-03-07T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T10:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/?p=9357"},"modified":"2018-03-07T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T10:20:28","slug":"womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members from the Women and Media Collective, the women\u2019s resource Center in Kurunegala, Viluthu in the North and East and the women\u2019s 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 Local Governments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8jIC6ecBw3o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members from the Women and Media Collective, the women\u2019s resource Center in Kurunegala, Viluthu in the North and East and the women\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39,49,16,36,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-campaigns","category-legal-and-policy-reforms","category-news","category-videos","category-womens-representation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Women&#039;s groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota - Women &amp; Media Collective<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women&#039;s groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota - Women &amp; Media Collective\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Members from the Women and Media Collective, the women\u2019s resource Center in Kurunegala, Viluthu in the North and East and the women\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Women &amp; Media Collective\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/womenandmediacollective\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-07T10:20:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"wmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@womenandmedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@womenandmedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"wmc\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"wmc\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4b9006f49aae93486ba81fc5c513c917\"},\"headline\":\"Women&#8217;s groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-07T10:20:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":69,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Advocacy\",\"Campaigns\",\"Legal and Policy Reforms\",\"News\",\"Videos\",\"Women's Representation\"],\"inLanguage\":\"ta-LK\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/\",\"name\":\"Women's groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota - Women &amp; Media Collective\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-07T10:20:28+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"ta-LK\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"ta-LK\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/si\\\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Women&#8217;s groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/\",\"name\":\"Women & Media Collective\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"ta-LK\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Women & Media Collective\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"ta-LK\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/08\\\/logo-01.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/08\\\/logo-01.svg\",\"width\":500,\"height\":500,\"caption\":\"Women & Media Collective\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/womenandmediacollective\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/womenandmedia\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/wmc_srilanka\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/women-and-media-collective\\\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/4b9006f49aae93486ba81fc5c513c917\",\"name\":\"wmc\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"ta-LK\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"wmc\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/womenandmedia.org\\\/ta\\\/author\\\/wmc\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Women's groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota - Women &amp; Media Collective","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Women's groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota - Women &amp; Media Collective","og_description":"Members from the Women and Media Collective, the women\u2019s resource Center in Kurunegala, Viluthu in the North and East and the women\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/","og_site_name":"Women &amp; Media Collective","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/womenandmediacollective","article_published_time":"2018-03-07T10:20:28+00:00","author":"wmc","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@womenandmedia","twitter_site":"@womenandmedia","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"wmc"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/"},"author":{"name":"wmc","@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/4b9006f49aae93486ba81fc5c513c917"},"headline":"Women&#8217;s groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota","datePublished":"2018-03-07T10:20:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/"},"wordCount":69,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","articleSection":["Advocacy","Campaigns","Legal and Policy Reforms","News","Videos","Women's Representation"],"inLanguage":"ta-LK"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/","url":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/","name":"Women's groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota - Women &amp; Media Collective","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2018-03-07T10:20:28+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"ta-LK","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"ta-LK","@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/si\/womens-groups-meet-elections-commissioner-and-minister-on-womens-quota\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Women&#8217;s groups meet with Elections Commissioner and Minister on quota"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/","name":"Women & Media Collective","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"ta-LK"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/#organization","name":"Women & Media Collective","url":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"ta-LK","@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/logo-01.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/logo-01.svg","width":500,"height":500,"caption":"Women & Media Collective"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/womenandmediacollective","https:\/\/x.com\/womenandmedia","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wmc_srilanka\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/women-and-media-collective\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/4b9006f49aae93486ba81fc5c513c917","name":"wmc","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"ta-LK","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"wmc"},"url":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/author\/wmc\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}