DEMOCRATIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGES – 2018

on 28^th July 2018

Local Governance, Democratic and Human Rights Challenges 28th July 2018- Hotel Janaki –Colombo IMADR Asia Committee with the support of its project Women’s Political Academy had facilitated training and empowering 250 women to contest the Local Government Election held on 10th November. 100 women of the 250 have been elected to serve in the LG bodies islandwide.  The project plans to target these women as they are key community leaders representing all three major communities in Sri Lanka. A two days meeting was held at Janaki Hotel covering relevant issues related to Human Rights, TJ and Compliances of Sri Lanka to CERD/CEDAW/UPR and the importance of compliances in relation to Constitutional making process.

The participants included 100 representing newly elected members to the Local Government Institutions in February 2018. The action took note of the need to critically review the participation of women at the leadership level in the on-going civil society campaigns related to constitutional reforms/transitional justice as local leaders and to enhance their participation at the governance and decision making level. At this meeting it was agreed to further develop a special skills development programme educating a core team of women to effectively intervene in the campaigns organised by NMNC. During this meeting the networks decided to identified women’s speakers who can join in these campaigns at the district level and enhance their oratorical ability.

Colombo