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dc.contributor.authorParliamentary Research Team
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-08T08:35:09Z
dc.date.available2023-08-08T08:35:09Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-03
dc.identifier.urihttps://archive.veriteresearch.org/handle/456/5886
dc.descriptionThis infographic is available in English and Sinhala.en_US
dc.description.abstractOn 4 April 2023, MP Premnath Dolawatte’s private member bill to amend sections 365 and 365A of the penal code was read for the first time in parliament. This is because the LGBTQI+ community has historically been the target of harassment with the implementation of section 365 under the title “unnatural offences” and section 365A under the title “acts of gross indecency between persons”. In response to this first reading, on 17 April 2023, three petitioners appearing before the Supreme Court claimed that the private member bill was “inconsistent with one or more articles of the constitution”. On 9 May 2023, however, the Supreme Court determined that the “bill as a whole or any provision thereof is not inconsistent with the constitution”. Taking this into consideration, Manthri.lk evaluated the current penal code and the proposed amendment to the penal code.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherManthri.lken_US
dc.subjectLGBTQI+ Discriminationen_US
dc.subjectPenal Code - Section 365en_US
dc.subjectPenal Code - Section 365Aen_US
dc.subjectPenal Code - Amendment of Section 365 and 365Aen_US
dc.subjectLGBTQI+ Community - Decriminalising Homosexualityen_US
dc.subject9th Parliament - Private Member Bill - Amendment of Section 365 and 365Aen_US
dc.subject9th Parliament - Private Member Bill - Amendment of Section 365 and 365A - Supreme Court Determinationen_US
dc.subject9th Parliament - Private Member Bill - Amendment of Section 365 and 365A - Premnath C. Dolawatte - Sri Lanka Podujana Peramunaen_US
dc.subjectLGBTQI+ Discrimination - Amendment to penal codeen_US
dc.titleDecriminalising Homosexuality: Proposed Amendment to the Penal Codeen_US
dc.typeInfographicsen_US
dc.project.codeNED11en_US


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