The 10th Annual Congress of the Savisthri Movement was held on the 2nd April 2015 at the Auditorium of the Public Library, Colcombo 07. at which the document titled “Womens Proposals for the betterment of Sri Lanka was handed over to the government authorities.
Approximately 250 individuals participated including,
intellects, representatives of various
organizations and of the 07 Savisthri Districts.
At the outset the National Secretary of the Savisthri
Movement explained her views regarding the womens’ proposals for the betterment
of the country ie. to effect a change by eradicating the sad plight of the
women at village, urban levels especially the pressurized women in the North
and the East of Sri Lanka. During the past several years violence reigned in
the country and even in the aftermath of the 30 year old war between the Government
forces and the rebel groups, people suffered immensely especially the women in
the North and the East. They have been greatly
inconvenienced and pressurised and hence the submission of the womens’ document
to substantiate the rights of the women and effect a better change.
The proposals include the escalation of the womens’ representation
by 25% in the parliment and the local government institutions, appointment of
an Independent Womens’ Commission, formulation of economic, Social and
political policies for the increase in womens representatives, to effect electoral
reforms and formulation of a programme to get the corporation of the citizens to
strengthen the village constitution for
the protection of the independence of the Judiciary
The Deputy Parliamentary Minister of Children’s
Affairs Mrs. Rosy Senanayake to whom the document was handed over agreed to consider
and expressed her desire that she could be contacted any time regarding the
activities pertaining to decision making regarding the proposals embodied in
the document and made a special request to hand over a copy of the relevant
document to all Ministers.
This activitiy was followed by the National Congress
of the Savisthri Movement where office bearers for the current year have been
elected.
