Sri Lankan sites
Human Rights Treaties
Additional HR Instruments
Internal Displacement
Humanitarian Law
UN Special Procedures
UN Treaty Bodies

Useful links

Other Sri Lankan websites

1. Human Rights Commission - http://www.hrclk.org
   
   
2. Ministry of Defence - www.defence.lk
   
   
3. Constitution of Sri Lanka
   www.priu.gov.lk/Cons/1978Constitution/Introduction.htm
   www.priu.gov.lk/Cons/1978Constitution/Chapter_01_Amd.html

Major Human Rights Treaties to which Sri Lanka is Party to (with year of ratification or accession)

1. United Nations Charter
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/docs/UNcharter.pdf
   
   
2. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1980)
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/cescr.pdf
   
   
3. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1980)
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/ccpr.pdf
   
   
4. Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1998)
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/ccpr-one.pdf
   
   
5. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racism (1982)
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/cerd.pdf
   
   
6. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1981)
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/cedaw.pdf
   
   
7. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (2003)
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/cedaw-one.pdf
   
   
8. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1994)
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/cat.htm
   
   
9. Convention on the Rights of the Child (1991)
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/crc.pdf
   
   
10. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflicts (2002)
    http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/crc-conflict.pdf
    
    
11. Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2002)
    http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/crc-sale.pdf
    
    
12. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Member of their Families (2003)
    http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/cmw.pdf

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Additional Human Rights Instruments

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1. Sinhala http://www.unhcr.ch/udhr/lang/snh.htm
2. Tamil http://www.unhcr.ch/udhr/lang/tcv.htm
3. English http://www.unhcr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm

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Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

1. Tamil http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/idp/GPTamil.pdf
2. English http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/english/issues/idp/GPTamil.pdf
3. Sinhala (listed on the OHCHR website)

1. Vienna Declaration and Programme Action
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/vienna.pdf
   
   
2. United Nations Millennium Declaration
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/millennium.htm
   
   
3. Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/protectionwomen.htm

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Major Conventions on International Humanitarian Law to which Sri Lanka is Party to

1. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non – International Armed Conflicts
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/protocol2.htm
   
   
2. Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/prisonerwar.htm
   
   
3. Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/civilianpersons.htm
   
   
4. Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of August 12,1949 and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol 1)
   http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/protocol1.htm

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Reports of the United Nations Special Procedures

1. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Mission to Sri Lanka (2006)
   
   
2. Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Mission to Sri Lanka (2005)
   
   
3. Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Visit to Sri Lanka (1999)
   

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Report of United Nations Treaty Bodies

1. Conclusions and Recommendations of the Committee against Torture, Sri Lanka, 2005
2. Report of Sri Lanka to the Committee against Torture, 2004
3. Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee, 2003
4. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2003