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From Rights and Shame to Remedies and Change: Gender Violence in Sri Lanka

This book looks at how the law has responded to women who have suffered violence. Police statistics, media reports and the experiences of women activists and counsellors indicate that violence against women is a widespread phenomenon in Sri Lanka….One of the biggest problems is lack of awareness...

Gender Sensitive Guidelines on Implementing the Tsunami Housing Policy

The Tsunami Housing Policy states that cash grants are supposed to go to the owner of the previous land/house. In practice the cash allocations have been deposited into existing bank accounts which were used earlier to deposit tsunami assistance grants of Rupees 5000 (about $49). In most cases...

Is Land Just for Men?

Critiquing Discriminatory Laws, Regulations and Administrative Practices relating to Land and Property Rights of Women in Sri Lanka, Colombo, Law and Society Trust. This is a review of national and provincial laws, regulations and administrative practices in Sri Lanka relating to women’s land...

Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana uncovered

This is a feminist economist analysis of female headed households in Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province. The author challenges the dominant discourses that Sri Lankan women have achieved a favorable position in society compared to many women living elsewhere because they have achieved high scores in...

Penkalin Nilam: A study on women’s land rights in the post-tsunami resettlement process in Batticaloa, Batticaloa, Suriya
This publication documents the unique customary land holding patterns in the East of Sri Lanka which became invisible from national policy discussions on resettlement following the tsunami disaster of 2004 as well as advocacy efforts by the Women’s Coalition for Disaster Management (WCDM) based in...
Post Tsunami: Women and their right to own property: Report of 100 case studies from the Southern and Eastern Provinces in Sri Lanka

The study examines Tsunami Housing Policy of April 2006 which provided guidelines to allocate a house for a house, which in practice meant that male heads of household received the certificate of ownership even when the property was originally owned by the women members of the family.

Property ownership and Domestic Violence, A perspective from Sri Lanka

One third of women in this study claimed to own land, and the prevalence of violence reported was low (13%), but the study highlights notions of patriarchy and social norms that operated in the context of Sri Lankan society, making women passive subjects to the violence inflicted on them. The...

Proposals on Reform to State Land Housing Legislation and Policy

This publication identified discriminatory laws and policies in relation to state land and housing allocation and makes recommendations for reform.

Sometimes There is No Blood: Domestic Violence and Rape in Rural Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka as signatory to the CEDAW is obliged to ensure that the rights of women are protected and promoted. Yet, this study of the national legal framework clearly highlights that "the law" continues to discriminate against women in many aspects. Where violence against women is concerned, the...

The Matrilineal East Coast, Circa 1968: Nostalgia and Post Nostalgia in our troubled time