National conference

Our Vision

 

           Creating a society based on equality and justice through rural women’s leadership.

 

 

 

Our Mission

          

           Through empowerment of rural peasants and women workers in  Sri Lanka, facilitate and contribute in the efforts of rural women to redress their social, economic, political, environmental and cultural issues in an organized and sustainable manner.

 

           The RWF has marched forward since 1988 empowering women of rural sector, organizing them around their problems and building their own leadership to solve them during the last 19 years.

Management & Executive Members in RWF

About Us

 

Many of the women’s organizations operative at the time believed that women suffered in the home and outside it, due to male domination and strategies should be adopted to eliminate such harassments. Raising women’s awareness was dome based on that assumption.

 

The RWF of the opinion that women’s problems cropped up mainly due to poverty prevalent in the Sri Lankan rural sector, and that while women should work towards changing the oppressive social system, they should try to solve the specific women’s issues.

 

Accordingly Comrade Gamini Yapa initiated the theoretical guidance for women’s leadership.

 

Our Objectives

 

· Building a strong rural women’s leadership which would be capable of effectively addressing their identified issues through awareness raising.

· Protecting and promoting human rights of women engaged in sectors of agriculture, labor, plantation, fisheries and migrant workers.

· Lobbing to change unfavorable government policies.

· Increasing women representationin the main decision making bodies of the country including parliament.

· Encouraging women to engage in environmentally friendly pursuits, based on local raw materials and thereby strengthening them economically.

· Providing relief to people who suffer from natural disasters.

· Raising awareness among the community about environmental issues and conducting various programs for the protection of environment.

· Organizing children to good and useful citizens and at the while protecting their rights.

· Documenting and disseminating data regarding violation of  rights in Sri Lanka, thereby providing the people with correct information and pressuring the authorities.