Methmalie Dissanayake

Sri Lanka

Methmalie Dissanayake is a newspaper journalist for the Ceylon Today Newspaper in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is designated as a Parliament Reporter and covers stories of the Sri Lankan government’s programmes and policies on education, mental health and sexual and reproductive health and rights among others. She wrote a story on the government’s plan to introduce a law on the termination of pregnancy in the instances of rape, incest and underage pregnancies and the impediment to passing such law.