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Equal partners: Engaging men and boys for gender equality December, 21, 2020 Sri Lanka ranks 90 out of 189 in the Gender Inequality Index (2019). Over the years, significant strides have been made to create equal opportunities for women, particularly in terms of free and equal access to education and healthcare. However, in the face of structural barriers and harmful societal norms that perpetuate gender stereotypes - while gender inequalities can affect anyone - evidence points to women facing the most discrimination particularly in their own homes and social spheres. The Gender Social Norms...

Equal partners campaign: Engaging men and boys for gender equality View(s): Sri Lanka ranks 90 out of 189 in the Gender Inequality Index (2019). Over the years, significant strides have been made to create equal opportunities for women, particularly in terms of free and equal access to education and healthcare. However, in the face of structural barriers and harmful societal norms that perpetuate gender stereotypes — while gender inequalities can affect anyone — evidence points to women facing the most discrimination particularly in their own homes and social spheres. The...

Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 08:24 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 18, Colombo: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Preschools & Primary Educations, School Infrastructure & Education Services, and the Men Engage Alliance Thursday launched a media campaign titled “Equal Partners” to engage men and boys to advance gender equality in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka ranks 90 out of 189 in the Gender Inequality Index (2019). Over the years, significant strides have been made to create equal opportunities for women, particular...

"We have let the government's evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long. We are approaching a reckoning. This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and anarchy is loosed upon the world ."  John W. Whitehead "Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order." Information Clearing House: 7/25/2019 (Quoted by Mahboob A. Khawaja, "Democracy of Inhumanity and We, the People of Global Consciousness". Information Clearing House: 1...