Feminist platform · Sri Lanka
Nothing about us, without us.
Sisterhood Lanka is a feminist platform built with women and girls across all nine provinces — documenting lived realities, changing unjust law, and building the power to decide our own futures.
- provinces we work in
- 9 provinces we work in
- organising since
- 2016 organising since
- languages we work in
- 3 languages we work in
Sisterhood Lanka is a feminist platform built by and for women and girls across the island. We began in 2016 as a small circle of activists, researchers, lawyers and survivors who were tired of watching women's realities flattened into statistics — and we have grown into a national network working in all nine provinces.
We work where gender inequality is produced and reproduced: in homes, in workplaces, in courts, in classrooms, in religious institutions, and increasingly online. Our role is not to speak for women. It is to make sure women have the resources, the legal knowledge and the collective power to speak for themselves.
Everything we publish is grounded in the lives of the women we work with. Our research is designed with community researchers rather than extracted from them, and our advocacy is shaped by the women who live the consequences of the policies we challenge.
We are independent, non-partisan and not affiliated to any political party or religious body. We are accountable to the communities we work with first, and to our funders second.
Vision & mission
Our vision
A Sri Lanka where every woman and girl lives free from violence, discrimination and fear — and where her voice shapes the decisions that govern her own life.
Our mission
To build feminist power among women and girls in Sri Lanka by documenting lived realities, advocating for just law and policy, creating safe spaces for collective learning, and holding institutions accountable to the promises they make.
What we do
What we do
Seven areas of work, run with partners in every province.
Legal literacy and rights education
Advocacy for law and policy reform
Safe spaces and survivor-centred support
Digital safety and online violence response
Economic justice and livelihoods
Movement building and youth leadership
From the blog
Latest articles
Law & Policy
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Why the Domestic Violence Act still fails the women it was written for
Sri Lanka has had a law against domestic violence since 2005. Women still wait months for protection orders, and most never report at all. We mapped where the proces...
By Nadeesha Fernando
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Economic Justice
2 min read
The cost of silence: what women's unpaid work is worth on the plantations
A plantation worker is paid for the hours she spends picking. Nobody pays for the hours she spends keeping an entire workforce alive. We did the arithmetic.
By Tharushi Bandara
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Digital Rights
2 min read
Online harassment is violence — and here is your safety checklist
Threats sent to your phone are not "just online". They follow you home, and the law does apply. A practical checklist from our digital safety team.
By Sisterhood Lanka Collective
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Latest videos
Why a national gender equality agenda has to be more than a document — and what changes when women are in the room where budgets are decided.
A short primer we use to open our community workshops. Equality is not sameness — it is the removal of the barriers that only some of us face.