• Local Authorities Special Provision Bill Determination SD No.02/2010 (Supreme Court) (affirmative
action quotas not recognized).
• See Compulsory Education Regulation (1997), in section, Right to Education
Sexual Harassment
• Manohari Pelaketiya v H.M. Gunasekara and others SC/FR/No 76/2012
Torture
Literature
• See S. Sharvananda cited earlier.
• R.K.W. Goonewardane cited earlier
• A.R.B. Amerasinghe, Our Fundamental Rights of Personal Security and Physical Liberty, Sarvodaya
1995 Ch.II
• Kishali Pinto Jayawardena, The Rule of Law in Decline cited earlier.
• S. Goonesekere Fundamental Rights and the Law of Delict in A.R.B. Amerasinghe and S.S.
Wijeratna (ed.) Human Rights, Human Values and the Rule of Law, Legal Aid Foundation Colombo
(2003) p.51 at p.57.
Cases
• Sriyani Silva v Iddamalgoda 2003 2 SriL14 cited earlier (right to life and torture)
• YogalingamVijitha v Wijesundera, cited earlier (sexual violence as torture)
• Maradana Rape Case(2001) cited earlier (rape as torture)
• NalinkaKumudini v Nihal Mahinda 1997 3 SriLR331 ( torture of girl child)
• Kumarasena v. S.Y. Sriyantha 1994 SC 257/53 (sexual harassment as torture)
• Bandara v. Wickremasinghe 1995 2 Sri LR 167 (corporal Punishment as inhuman degrading
treatment).
• Faiz Mohamed Attorney General 1951 1 Sri LR372( State inaction)
• Deshapriya v Captain Weerakoon 2003 2 SriLR 90 Lal Deceased and Ranee Fernando v OIC
Seeduwa 2005 1 SriLR 40 (command responsibility).
Constitution and Other Fundamental Rights
Literature
• See Sharvananda cited earlier
• R.K.W. Goonewardena cited earlier
• A.R.B. Amerasinghe cited earlier
• S.Goonesekere, L. Senanayake and H de Silva cited earlier p. 40-48
Rights to Health and Education
Literature
• S Sharvananda cited earlier
• Goonesekere S. , Senanayake L and de Silva H cited earlier p.43
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