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The Sri Lankan Constitution does not recognize a right to substantive equality, right bodily integrity, a minimum quota for representation of women at local government, provincial and national levels. The nondiscrimination clause does not explicitly refer to discrimination based on gender identities among its protected characteristics. Regardless
1 gru 1993 · This paper will examine issues of concern to women in Sri Lanka, including women's legal rights, the economic status of women, violence against women and legal recourse, internal flight alternatives and the activities of women's organizations.
English. (1) All persons are equal before the law and are entitled to the equal protection of the law. (2) No citizen shall be discriminated against on the grounds of race, religion, language, caste, sex, political opinion, place of birth or anyone of such grounds :
Sri Lanka is signatory to key United Nations (UN) Conventions and International Human Rights Treaties which have committed to gender equality and women’s empowerment. Sri Lanka, in 1981 ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Gender equality and non discrimination of women must be a guiding principle of State machinery and State action in Sri Lanka. Chapter III of the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka sets out Fundamental Rights, which ensure for example non discrimination on the ground of sex (and other specified grounds), which can be used in responding to violence ...
The Sri Lankan judicial thinking is dominated by the sameness approach to equality that ensures “gender neutral” laws, in which men and women are considered to be the same, hence to be treat-ed equally. The Constitution of Sri Lanka2 in Article 12 (1) of its Fundamental Rights Chapter ensures the equality of all citizens before the law and the
In Sri Lanka women have, as in other parts of the world sought to use the emancipatory nature of the law to combat discrimination against women, promote their rights and improve their status. In particular, within the South Asian region, campaigns and movements for change through law reform have to a great extent focused
