Ratification Status for Sri Lanka Treaty Signature Date CAT – Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Ratification Date, Accession (a), Succession (d) Date 03 Jan 1994 (a) CAT-OP - Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture CCPR – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 11 Jun 1980 (a) CCPR – OP2 – DP – Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming to the abolition of the death penalty CED – Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance 10 Dec 2015 25 May 2016 CEDAW – Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 17 Jul 1980 05 Oct 1981 CERD – International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 18 Feb 1982 (a) CESCR – International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 11 Jun 1980 (a) CMW – International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 11 Mar 1996 (a) CRC – Convention on the Rights of the Child 26 Jan 1990 12 Jul 1991 CRC-OP-AC �� Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict 21 Aug 2000 08 Sep 2000 CRC-OP-SC- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography 08 May 2002 22 Sep 2006 CRPD – Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 08 Feb 2016 CCPR – OP1 – Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights YES 03 Oct 1997 CEDAW – OP – Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women YES 15 Oct 2002 COMPENDIUM ON LAW, GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS 73