• Para 34 lack of protection of women in informal sector, including regarding sexual harassment. • Para 36 limited knowledge of reproductive health and low rate of contraceptive use, high level of teenage pregnancies increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS among women, abortion, maternal mortality and clandestine abortion. • Para 44 marriage and family law – customary and religious laws that discriminate against women, and absence of minimum age of marriage in Muslim law, husband’s consent required to appear in court or undertake transaction, absence of no fault divorce, and women’s economic rights after divorce. 2. See also CEDAW/C/LKA/CO/8 3 March 2017 – Review of Eighth Periodic Reports 9. Policy Documents •`International Policy Document on Sustainable Development Goals 2015 United Nations A/RES/70/1 •`Policy Documents, ICPD, BPFA, MDG 10. Full titles and dates on relevant international Conventions Ratified by Sri Lanka • International Covenent on Civil and Political Rights (1966) (ICCPR) • International Covenants on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (1966) (ICESCR) • International Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1965) (ICERD) • Convention on Torture (1984) (CAT) • Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) (CEDAW) and Optional Protocol (1999) • Convention on the Rights of Child (1989) (CRC) and Optional Protocols • Convention on Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers (1990) • Convention on Terrorist Financing (1999) (CTF) • Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980) (HC) • Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) (CRPD) • Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime (2000) and Palermo Protocol • Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances (2016) (CPPED) 72 COMPENDIUM ON LAW, GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS