Sri Lanka, Human Rights and the United Nations A Scrutiny into the International Human Rights Engagement with a Third World State /

• Main Author: Ananthavinayagan, Thamil Venthan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Law and the Global South, Perspectives from the Rest of the World,
• Subjects: Public international law.; Human rights.; Criminology.; Social justice.; Public International Law .; Human Rights and Crime .; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This book examines the engagement between the United Nations' human rights machinery and the respective governments since Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) joined the United Nations. Sri Lanka has a long and rich history of engagement with international human rights instruments. However, despite its acti...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Sri Lanka's History: Colonialism, Independence and Conflict
• Sri Lanka's human rights infrastructure
• The United Nations Treaty-based Bodies and their Engagement with Sri Lanka
• The United Nations Charter-based bodies and their Engagement with Sri Lanka
• Conclusion.