Minister of Women and Child Affairs and Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus, Saroja Savithri Paulraj, has called for a unified global approach to address gender-based harassment in politics, emphasizing the need for “debate free from hate.” Addressing the 9th Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Conference, held as part of the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) in Bridgetown, Barbados, Minister Paulraj took part in a high-level panel discussion titled “Debate Not Hate: Not Accepting Abuse as an Outcome of Free Speech.” The session examined how to safeguard women in politics from harassment, hate speech, and online abuse while maintaining…
Debate not hate: Sri Lanka’s Saroja Paulraj joins Commonwealth call to end political abuse
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