Hanako Okada was one of 73 women to win seats at the general election last month, a record number in a Parliament long dominated by men.

Erin Loos Cutraro, the founder of the non-profit organization She Should Run spoke to Newsweek about moving forward and the ...

STORY: Sudath Kumara and his wife Nilmini live in a house illegally built on state-owned land in Sri Lanka.They have nowhere ...

Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary ...

The elections are expected to set the tone for the country’s political future under the leadership of President Anura Kumara ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, seeks to expand his parliamentary seats with backing from ...

presidential election ... women from minority communities, and they need to offer them funds and support to be able to ...

Representation of minority groups in Sri Lanka’s Parliament appears to be in danger of weakening in the upcoming elections, which could affect ... political parties are neglecting the nomination of ...

The question about whether a woman can become the president of the United States has been asked time and again. Yet in other ...

As election cycles come and go, the conversation around the low female representation in Sri Lanka’s political sphere is ...

Sri Lanka’s so-called “political earthquake” saw the election of a president from outside the traditional political elites ...