By Renuka Mendis (Satchithananthan) I remember the Beatles song “She Loves You” so well. It was the Carnival at Good Shepherd Convent (“GSC”) and I must have been twelve. The “it” girls had a girl band in those mod mini skirts, huge wide belts and of course the obligatory rubber boots. The Carnival was an annual event to celebrate the ...
Indi Samarajeeva who blogs at indi.ca has joined the 16days online campaign with a blog post. Original post at http://indi.ca/2011/11/gender-violence-and-money-16days/ Indi tweets at http://twitter.com/indica and you can follow him on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/indiblog Humans are sexual dimorphic. Men are bigger than women. Animals are thought to evolve this way to compete over mates (ie, male on male, or male on prey violence), not to ...
PP’s contribution to the 16 Days Campaign. She blogs at http://no-to-polsambol.blogspot.com Original post at http://no-to-polsambol.blogspot.com/2011/12/16days-women-are-people-too.html Growing up in Sri Lanka means you get used to the cat calls, the whistles, the insults, the occasional grope in the bus. You tend to also brush them off because almost everyone else seem to do so. Because “boys will be boys” after all. When I ...
Originally from http://bfang.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/sri-lan-cock-a-snag-in-solo-female-travel/ It’s been a week in Sri Lanka, and it is remarkably different from Thailand or anywhere else I’ve been. I’ll have a more general post about that and some brighter details of my travels later on. For now, I’ve been dwelling on some unsavory thoughts and want to get them off my chest. I’ve been staying in Colombo ...
By Neluka Liyanage Domestic abuse was never something that was on my radar. Sure I knew that travelling on public transport in Sri Lanka made you fair game. Sure it was an obstacle course when trying to pass a group of boys. Sure there was the fear of rape or being mugged when walking down a lonely street in the ...
Contribution by Gehan who blogs at http://darksidedaily.blogspot.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/gehan99 Original post can be found at http://darksidedaily.blogspot.com/2011/12/16days-not-my-fathers-son.html?spref=tw The moon is shockingly bright that night, adding an aura of surrealism to the scene. The soft bluish hue washes over the river banks, as a light breeze dances among the long blades of grass that grew there. He is tall, still and silent, standing a ...
The 25th of November marked the start of the 16 days of activism against Gender Based Violence campaign where individuals and groups around the world call for the elimination of all forms of violence against women. Evidence suggests that gender-based violence is widely prevalent in Sri Lanka. Women and adolescent girls are shown to have the highest risk of experiencing ...
We have reached the 8th day of the 16 day campaign and the response has been nothing short of amazing so far. However, we’d like more of you to contribute, whether its personal opinion, creative writing, photography, music, etc. We received our first two guest posts from men (Jerry and Indi) but haven’t heard from any men since. Hopefully ...
Anonymous Here I am after years of feeling like nothing. Finally I feel like I’m free and the world is at my finger tips. It’s nice to feel like I’m something more than nothing, actually a lot more than nothing. For years I thought everything he told me was true, that I really was stupid and not capable of much. ...
In commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women sixteen TV and Radio messages were broadcast during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based violence. It was noteworthy that the messages were all relayed by men, both well-known personalities and ordinary citizens, from diverse walks of life. The aim behind this was to convey that combating ...
See full post at http://passionparade.blogspot.com/2012/11/its-time-to-rise-up-and-speak-up.html “It’s Time to RISE UP and SPEAK UP Together” ~ 25th November 2012 marked the Commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which is also the beginning of 16 days Activism Against Gender Based Violence. Women In Need organised “Walk A Mile In Her SHOES”. The walk was themed “Real Men’s Walk to end ...
Gadgetgirl (aka GG) contributes with a blogpost. She blogs at http://purplesocksisallmine.blogspot.com/ and tweets at https://twitter.com/ggpurple Original post can be found at http://purplesocksisallmine.blogspot.com/2011/11/violence-against-women-16-days-of.html Last year, someone known to me was flickering with ebullience and oomph that she was going to get married. She was gracious enough to let my eyes run through her gifts of velvet cased jewellery and other apple polished frilly elegance. ...
“Violence against women and domestic violence became major concerns for Sri Lanka’s women’s organizations in the late 1980s and the 1990s (Jayawardena 1995: 405). The initial institutional responses to the problem took the form of a few scattered initiatives by women’s groups, which have grown over the past few years/decades with extensive funding from various sources. To date, there has ...
பெண்களுக்கு எதிரான வன்முறைகளை ஒழிப்பதற்கான சர்வதேச தினம் இன்று 2014.11.25 இன்று நவம்பர் 25 ஆம் திகதி பெண்களுக்கு எதிரான வன்முறைகளை ஒழிப்பதற்கான சர்வதேச தினமாக உலகெங்கும் அனுஷ்டிக்கப்படுகிறது. 1999 ஆம் ஆண்டு ஐ.நா.வினால் உத்தியோகபூர்வமாக இத்தினம் பிரகடனப்படுத்தப்பட்டது. 1960 ஆம் ஆண்டு டொமினிக்கன் குடியரசில் அரசியல் செயற்பாடுகளில் ஈடுபட்ட மிரபால் சகோதரிகள் எனும் சகோதரிகள் மூவர் (பெட்றீசியா மிராபல் ரெயீஸ், மரியா மினேரவா மிராபல் ரெயீஸ், அன்டோனியா மரியா தெரேசா மிராப
Fact 1 Up to 70% of women experience physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. The WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence against women indicated that intimate partner violence is widespread across many societies. The study showed that rates of physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner ranged from 15% in ...
We are all at risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS however there are some who are more vulnerable than others. We need to close the gap in HIV prevention and treatment. Infographic by UNAIDS
Thushanthi de Silva contributes to the 16 Day campaign. Thushanthi is a (late) twenty something who doesn’t like labels. She has been writing since she was a child, but mostly for her own pleasure. Appreciation from others is just a bonus. Some of her poetry can be seen here Her name was Maya. She was a makeup artist. It didn’t start out ...
From the 25 of November to the 10 of December each year the world advocates for an end to Gender Based violence (GBV). This is largely due to the number of acts of violence inflicted on the lives of women and men that go unnoticed leaving perpetrators in a culture of impunity. In Sri Lanka members of the GBV ...
