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Content Type(s): Publication

Topic(s): Torture, Violence and Abuse, Law & Policy, Gender-Based Violence

Region(s): Asia, China, Timor-Leste, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan

Locating LGBTQ People in Domestic Violence Laws in Asia

October 21, 2022

… In countries where there are laws addressing domestic violence, redress and services do not adequately encompass LGBTQ survivors. As a result, they are often unable to seek justice …

Content Type(s): Insight

Topic(s): Law & Policy

Region(s): Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's Criminalization of Lesbian is Discrimination, UN Body Finds

October 14, 2022

… pronouncements in a groundbreaking March 23 decision in which the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) found the government of … women. Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, a Sri Lankan lesbian and longtime activist in the struggle for LGBTI equality, brought the case before the CEDAW, which interprets the treaty obligations of … against Women. Sri Lanka inherited from its former British colonizer an 1883 Penal Code prohibiting “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” and “gross indecency between …

Content Type(s): Publication

Topic(s): Law & Policy, Torture, Violence and Abuse, Gender-Based Violence

Region(s): Sri Lanka

A Resource for Women's Rights Organizations in Sri Lanka

October 8, 2022