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In our collective efforts to uphold women’s rights, we work collaboratively with the Government of Sri Lanka and other partners to develop national policies, conduct research and advocacy, and deliver programming on: Women’s economic empowerment. Women’s leadership in governance and decision-making.
The women's movement organized on Sri Lanka under the Ceylon Women's Union in 1904, and from 1925, the Mallika Kulangana Samitiya and then the Women's Franchise Union (WFU) successfully campaigned for the introduction of women's suffrage, which was achieved in 1931.
Sri Lanka. Asia. Globally, some progress on women’s rights has been achieved. In Sri Lanka, 9.8% of women aged 20–24 years old who were married or in a union before age 18. The adolescent birth rate is 16.5 per 1,000 women aged 15–19 as of 2015, down from 17.9 per 1,000 in 2014.
Sri Lanka has among the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, imposing long prison sentences for all abortions with exceptions only for saving a woman’s life.
Women’s U.N. Report Network says 30 percent to 40 percent of women in Sri Lanka today suffer from some kind of violence, while more than 60 percent of women across Sri Lanka are victims of domestic violence. Women are routinely harassed both verbally and physically when traveling by bus, train or even walking on the street.
17 cze 2021 · “In recent times, a mandatory 25 per cent quota for women in local government was introduced in Sri Lanka. This was a direct result of the feminist movement which invested over 30 years of activism to address the underrepresentation and participation of women in politics in Sri Lanka.
In advocating for evidence-based policies, UN Women launched the first-ever report on gender, disability and employment in Sri Lanka and conducted the first-of-its-kind study on the relative demand for women workers in Sri Lanka’s formal enterprises which has resulted in policy influence to support women workers in Sri Lanka.
