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Women’s Manifesto

2010 | Social Scientists’ Association (SSA)

This manifesto is an attempt to identify the most critical issues currently facing women in Sri Lanka. The publication identifies critical issues, concerns and challenges facing women today. It also p..

Is land just for men? : Critiquing discriminatory laws, regulations and administrative practices relating to land and property rights of women in Sri Lanka

2010 | Ed. By, Jayawardena, K.P. et.al.

This study examines a range of issues that impact women’s land and property rights with national and provincial laws, regulations and administrative practices in Sri Lanka. Since gender discrimi..

A programming framework to address gender-based violence

2009 | Women Defining Peace

This publication aims to provide a framework as a guide to prevent, reduce and ultimately eliminate gender based violence in Sri Lanka. It provides a simple understanding of gender based violence. I..

Resources for combating violence against women

Centre for Women’s Research

It is believed that there is no gender based violence in Sri Lanka because there are no extreme forms of violence such as female genital mutilation, sati or widow burning, social segregation of wido..

Beyond glass ceilings and brick walls: Gender at the workplace

2006 | Wickramasinghe, M. & Jayatilaka, W.

This book aims at raising awareness about the challenges faced by women workers and managers in a workplace and provides guidelines on how to make work organizations more gender responsive. It provi..

The why and how of gender-sensitive indicators: a project level handbook.

1996 | Canadian International Development Agency

The Guide to gender-sensitive indicators and the Project-level handbook are the final products of a 14 month research project completed with the Division for Women in Development and Gender Equity in ..

If not now, when? Addressing gender based violence in refugee, internally displaced and post conflict settings: A global overview.

2002 | Jeanne Ward

This report is one of several outcomes of a two year global Gender-based Violence Initiative spearheaded by the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium (RHRC) and aimed at improving international ..

A history of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka: recollection, reinterpretation & reconciliation: Stage managing the décor: gender, ethnicity and conflict

2001 | Radhika Coomaraswamy

Since January 1999 the Marga Institute had undertaken a project entitled ‘A history of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: recollection, reinterpretation & reconciliation’. The outcomes of t..

Dalit women rights and citizenship in India

2010 | Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal

This report develops an understanding on the problem of ‘Dalit women’ in India. This has been done through a comprehensive review of the current theoretical and empirical literature relate..

Conflict, gender, ethnicity and post-conflict reconstruction

2004 | Lori Handrahan

This article introduces the concept of ethnicity in relation to gendered security problems in conflict and post conflict settings. Feminist research has established that men and women experience confl..

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