Day Four features a photograph by Rushda Mohinudeen. Each year young women and even younger girls from distant villages are coaxed to Colombo with false promises of well paying jobs. When they reach Colombo however, they’re are forced into the sex worker trade. It’s involuntary. It’s illegal. It’s against fundamental human rights. Watch this blog [...]
Day 3 features a photograph by TheGargoyleInJeans. Domestic violence is common world wide and it’s quite rampant in Sri Lanka. Most often women don’t leave their abusive husbands because- she has no where to go, her husbands apologises each time he assaults her saying he loves her or threatens to kill her/ her children if [...]
Day 2 features a photograph by Megara Tegal. This picture is about the universality of gender based violence (GBV). It’s not restricted to a particular demographic. GBV is stifling women in all societies- whether it’s verbal or physical abuse. Watch this blog for the next 14 days. We’ll be posting a featured photograph each day [...]
Did you know that there aren’t many pictures available on the internet in regard to gender based violence? It’s true. We combed Google Images and came across only a few. So, Beyond Borders decided to make a compilation of photographs on gender based violence. These pictures will be freely available on the internet for download [...]
So, The WMC is having a 16 days of activism thing-> Link. which hopes to inform people about gender based violence and things. I had no idea what gender based violence in Sri Lanka is like, so I googled it. There is some violence against men, but I couldn’t uncover much about that and the whole [...]
We certainly are! Joining the 16 days of (online) campaigning against gender violence- we’ll be blogging and tweeting more frequently from 25 November to 10 December. Gender based violence is a pathosis in the world; no one- class, race or age has been spared. The unpleasant truth is that you ARE affected by it directly [...]
Several months back, I was asked by a few friends to come be a part of a network of young girls (and then some guys joined too!) who were working towards creating a safer space for women in Sri Lanka. Their initial work started in Colombo. As part of ‘reaching out’ to society, the Reach [...]
…in our quest to crush evil and restore peace in the world! And the best part is you won’t have to wear a spandex suit and your undies on the outside (unless you want to…). All right, on a more serious note- we are on a recruitment drive. Beyond Borders (BB) is a youth led [...]
A week long treat for photo-enthusiasts is brought to you by Rotaract Club of Pandura. Rotaract Shutterbug has a line up of a fascinating sessions ranging from photojournalism (which will be held today), followed by a session on new media tomorrow and an exhibition of photographs from November 03 to 05. Be sure to call [...]
As most of my friends and I have had our fair share of encounters with perverts, mostly while travelling in public transport. Initially when a woman encounters such weird disturbing characters we become scared and even come to a point to be ashamed that maybe it was our fault for have invited such due to [...]
For the guys there was a huge risk factor involved. There was a fair chance the commuters on the bus would band together and beat the living day lights out of them. But that was what Reach Out and Beyond Borders had set find out when we conducted disruptive theatre in buses recently. Despite it [...]
… with a Bang? No, that’s one too many B words. Anyway, this is to announce that the official blog of Beyond Borders Sri Lanka, after a hiatus of around six months, is finally back online. And we hope to keep this thing rolling, with regular posts on what BB is up to and will [...]
Beyond Borders is doing another Forum Theatre for the Rotaract District 3220 ‘HIV & YOUth’ campaign (which targeted the urban and suburban youth through workshops, movie screenings and the forum theatre performances from October to December this year) on Friday, December 10th at 6.30pm at Punchi Theatre. The forum theatre for this campaign is called [...]
Beyond Borders is deeply saddened by the death of Nigel de Silva – a close friend of Beyond Borders and personal friend to many at BB. Nigel came into the world of Beyond Borders shortly after the inception of BB, as a facilitator, a resource-person and mentor, and a valuable asset to the HIV/AIDS related [...]
-The poster, like the play, is more than usually out there Our latest Forum Theater production will appear on November 2 at the Bishops College auditorium. Forum theater is about audience interaction and expression. The play generally consists of five short scenes that last about 20 minutes. The audience is allowed to absorb the [...]
We have just launched a website about the constitution. Now stop that yawn and go check it out, because we’ve tried to convert the heavy worded constitution of the Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka to something more well, readable. The project is a part of Beyond Borders’ Peace and Governance initiative. The site will [...]
Talk about carbon trading and carbon emissions in Sri Lanka and the business savvy mind will immediately think of a company like MAS which became part of the world’s first ever fully ‘green’ supply chain together with Marks and Spencer. It may also think about various reforestation and sustainable energy projects that are implemented as [...]
In a democracy the constitution should ideally epitomize everything that its people stand for. It is intended to be the document which protects the people from unfettered powers of its Leader while protecting the individual whether he is a political minority or a racial minority. But in a country like Sri Lanka with a unique [...]
8th of September 2010 marks the new era. The end of Sri Lanka as we know it and a new beginning. An era of limitless power and political overhaul. The birth of the 18th amendment with a majority of 141 votes. 161 against a mere 20! Even the numbers don’t seem quite right next to [...]
Wanting to blog more is something I keep telling myself everyday like an incessantly chanted prayer. Like most things in life, I never get around to do so. Anyhow, one of the key things that prompted me to blog for Beyond Borders once more, was ‘Revolution Calling’. This indeed did arouse a considerable amount of [...]