Women Parliamentarians seek UK support to encourage young women’s political participation

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Colombo, Sept. 18 (Daily Mirror) - The Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus discussed potential pathways for UK support to the Caucus with representatives of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) and held discussions regarding intergenerational dialogue for encouraging young women’s political participation with the representatives of the Law and Society Trust (LST).

This meeting of the Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus was held recently under the patronage of Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya and the Chairperson of the Caucus Minister of Women and Child Affairs, Saroja Savitri Paulraj.

Addressing the Committee meeting, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) proposed support on introducing and practicing gender-sensitive law-making and gender responsive budgeting and in understanding and supporting the role of the Caucus in increasing the women's labour force participation, the Communications Department of Parliament said.

Support was also extended in strengthening and evaluating Parliament to be a gender sensitive parliament through research and policy support, it said.

The Members of the Caucus highlighted the need to also research and focus on grassroots level activism without only looking at the top layers. The Caucus reiterated the importance of mobilisation and women's participation at the grassroots level for the purpose of making changes.

Issues faced at present by women Parliamentarians was also made note of, encouraging mechanisms of support systems to women by way of methods such as counselling.

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Living in UK Thursday, 18 September 2025 09:00 PM

Sri Lankan politicians are unaware of horrible things that happen in Britain , British politicians look incompetent and powerless to deal with their own problems, so it is laughable to ask any help from British politicians.

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Go East Thursday, 18 September 2025 10:30 PM

No point. UK is going down the drain fast as a flushed turd. Soon the right wing extremist party with grab parliamentary power like in many other European neighbours and they will instruct the woman's place is the kitchen and baring children and raising families as said in their policy documents. Sri Lanka should look elsewhere.

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Yohan Thursday, 18 September 2025 10:42 PM

We should not follow uk or its standards anymore. It is a country that is going downhill with foolish laws. For example take shoplifting. Law enforcement officers or even shop owners cannot do anything with foolish laws other than watching thr thief leaving with goods. We should look to follow countries like Singapore and similar asian countries.

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