WOMEN IN NEED
Women In Need is one of Sri Lanka’s leading organisations committed to the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls. For the last 30 years, Women In Need has been fighting for gender equality and standing up for human rights for women and girls by campaigning for a violence free society.
Women In Need is a local, non-profit and non-governmental organisation dedicated to addressing issues of domestic violence, rape, child abuse, incest, cyber violence, street harassment and other forms of violence faced by women and girls across Sri Lanka.
MISSION & VISION
OUR VISION – Is of a violence free society that values and respects the rights of women and children.
OUR MISSION – Is to encourage women to break the silence and win against violence. To lead the way to a violence free society and increase victim’s coping skills to combat the trauma of violence against women and children.
What We Do
WIN provides essential crisis intervention support services to victims of violence so that women who are crippled by their situations are made strong, independent and protected.
Apart from the support that WIN provides for its victims, WIN also creates a sense of importance for why women need to be independent and strong – through livelihood programmes and social enterprise initiatives for victims to take up some form of employment in order to support themselves and their families.
Why Women and Girls?
Violence has become a part of everyday culture in Sri Lankan homes, justifying men beating up their wives, justifying women being catcalled in the streets, justifying men raping women, justifying child abuse, and justifying gender inequality.
In Sri Lanka, every three out of five women are victims of domestic violence, and only 1% of victims use the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act to obtain redress. In Sri Lanka, a woman is raped every 90 minutes and 97% of rapists face no legal consequences.