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Dr. Selvy Thiruchandran is a Trustee and the former Executive Director of the Women’s Education and Research Centre, Council Member of the Social Scientists’ Association and Board member of the Noolaham Foundation and the Social Development and Research Organization.
The Women’s Education Centre (WEC) was founded in 1982 by Selvy Thiruchandran, Bernadeen Silva (former Deputy Director of Centre for Society and Religion), and Kumari Jayawardena. The main objective of the feminist researchers and activists at WEC was to highlight the status of women in the country and to publish material that could be used ...
1. Women of the early period : ideas and activism; 2. From ideas to institutions; 3. The UN decade for women : its significance; 4. Women's engagement in civil society : activism in the periphery; 5. War zones in the east and north of Sri Lanka; 6. The plantation economy : its manifestations in the movement; 7. Women in collective protest ...
Women's movement in Sri Lanka: history, trends and trajectories By: Thiruchandran, Selvy. Publisher: Colombo Social Scientist Association 2012 Description: xvi, 318 p. ISBN: 9789559261605. Subject(s): Feminism DDC classification: 305.42
Using data and case study evidence gathered from fieldwork in eastern Sri Lanka during 1998–99, this paper fleshes out the particular situation of Sinhala female-heads. What conflict and non-conflict …
15 mar 2016 · Vasuki Nesiah. Table of Contents. Editorial - Dr. Selvy Thiruchandran. 1. Victimhood and Agency of Women during Disasters. Lessons from December 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka. Kalinga Tudor Silva. 2. The Patriarchal Trap and the Process of the Diminishing Justice in the Polity. Selvy Thiruchandran. 3.
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