Author: General Assembly Resolution 34/180
Publication:
Year: 1979
Annotation: Among the international human rights treaties, the Convention takes an important place in bringing the female half of humanity into the focus of human rights concerns. Defining the term ‘equality’, the Convention establishes not only an international bill of rights for women, but also an agenda for action by countries to guarantee the enjoyment of those rights. Nations that ratify this convention are bound to it by international law.
Link/location: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/text/econvention.htm
Publication:
Year: 1979
Annotation: Among the international human rights treaties, the Convention takes an important place in bringing the female half of humanity into the focus of human rights concerns. Defining the term ‘equality’, the Convention establishes not only an international bill of rights for women, but also an agenda for action by countries to guarantee the enjoyment of those rights. Nations that ratify this convention are bound to it by international law.
Link/location: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/text/econvention.htm
Prevention of Domestic Violence Act, No 34 of 2005
Author: Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Publication: Government Press
Year: 2005
Annotation:
Link/location: http://www.documents.gov.lk/Acts/2005/Prevention%20Act%20No.%2034%20of%202005/H%2022927%20Prevention%20%28E%29.pdf
Publication: Government Press
Year: 2005
Annotation:
Link/location: http://www.documents.gov.lk/Acts/2005/Prevention%20Act%20No.%2034%20of%202005/H%2022927%20Prevention%20%28E%29.pdf
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Author: United Nations, General Assembly Resolution 44/25
Publication:
Year: 1989
Annotation: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is attained earlier under a state’s own domestic legislation. Nations that ratify this convention are bound to it by international law.
Link/location: http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/children/participation/CRC-C-GC-12.pdf
Publication:
Year: 1989
Annotation: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is attained earlier under a state’s own domestic legislation. Nations that ratify this convention are bound to it by international law.
Link/location: http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/children/participation/CRC-C-GC-12.pdf
Penal Code (Amendment) Act, No. 16 of 2006
Author: Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Publication: Government Press, Colombo
Year: 2006
Annotation:
Link/location: http://www.aidscontrol.gov.lk/web/Web%20uploads/Policy%20or%20Law/Penal%20Code%20%28Amendment%29%20Act,%20No.%2016%20of%202006.pdf
Publication: Government Press, Colombo
Year: 2006
Annotation:
Link/location: http://www.aidscontrol.gov.lk/web/Web%20uploads/Policy%20or%20Law/Penal%20Code%20%28Amendment%29%20Act,%20No.%2016%20of%202006.pdf