Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya was misquoted in Facebook posts that falsely claimed she said she did not have any experience in building the country. She in fact told reporters that ...
As is well known Sirimavo and Chandrika were the wife and daughter of formr Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike (SWRDB) respectively. Prime Minister Bandaranaike was killed in 1959.
Today, they are just 5.3% of its 225 members, and historically held only a fraction of cabinet positions. Yet merely setting a quota of 25% among lawmakers, as was done in 2016, cannot be the only ...