The Cabinet of Ministers has granted its approval to the Draft Bill prepared by the Legal Draftsman and submitted to the Cabinet by President Ranil Wickremesinghe as Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment Minister in order to establish the National Women’s Commission.
Cabinet Spokesman Mass Media Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardhana said that the Cabinet of Ministers has previously granted its consent to establish an Independent Commission under the title of the “National Women’s Commission” to enable furnishing necessary recommendations to the Parliament through the subject Minister in order to mediate in the issues related to providing leadership for women’s rights and the activities of equality of gender socialisation.
The Cabinet has also granted policy approval to the Draft Bill aimed at introducing required legal provisions with the objective of empowering equality of gender socialisation and women.
Minister Gunwardhana said that a controversy is apparent within Sri Lanka regarding the equality of gender socialization and the Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment Ministry is taking measures to minimise the gender imbalance of socialisation.
Accordingly, approval of the Cabinet of Ministers was granted at their meeting held on September 5 last year to draft a Bill to introduce required legal provisions with the objective of empowering equality of gender socialisation and women.
Accordingly, the President in his capacity as the Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment Minister submitted the said Draft Bill which was prepared by the Legal Draftsman and the Cabinet of Ministers decided to grant policy approval to that.
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