Citizenship Amendment Act (2003) Domestic Violence Act (2005) • CAT Torture Act (1994) Corporal Punishment Repeal Act (2009) • CRC Penal Code Amendments (1995) and (2006) Maintenance Act (1999) • Palermo Protocol Penal Code Amendment (2006) (See references, section, Introduction) Cases on Application of International Law • Sepala Ekanayake v Attorney General 1987 1 SriLR 107 (hijacking of aircraft, treaties and Customary International law). • Singarasa v Attorney General SC Spl LA No. 182/1999 SC Minutes 15.9.2006 (Optional Protocol ICCPR), Principle of dualism and two systems of domestic law and international law) • Manohari Pelaketiya v H.M. Gunasekara and others SC/FR/No 76/2012 8. Recent Concluding Observations of Treaty bodies, (Committees monitoring progress) Review of Fifth Periodic Report of Sri Lanka to Human Rights Committee of ICCPR CCPR/C/LKA/CO/5 21.11.2014 • Para 5 (independence of the judiciary) • Para 6 (failure to fulfil obligations under Optional Protocol, Singharasa Case) • Para 7 (discrimination against women and land rights) • Para 8 (amendment to Penal Code provisions criminalizing homosexuality and constitutional amendment to prohibit explicit discrimination on ground of sexual orientation and identity. • Para 9 comprehensive approach to address gender based violence • Para 10 exceptions to permit therapeutic abortion, (rape, incest, abortion and maternal mortality). • Para 16 torture – strengthen response, including shifting burden of proof that confession not under torture, to prosecution • Para 16 banning corporal punishment in all settings. Concluding Observations of Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women: Sri Lanka 1. CEDAW/C/LKA/CO/7 17 Jan-4 Feb 2011 – Review of Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Periodic Reports • Para 12, 15 incorporation of CEDAW Convention in domestic legislation or Constitution not done. Appointment of Independent National Commission on Women • Para 23 eliminate practices and stereotypes that discriminate against women including in relation to sexual and reproductive education, sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women, and violence in family relations. • Para 24 violence against women, including marital rape. COMPENDIUM ON LAW, GENDER BASED VIOLENCE AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS 71