Sri Lanka

Status of International legal instruments protecting the right to food and nutrition (signatory, ratification):

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: 1980
• Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women – Signature: 1980, Ratification/Accession: 1981
• International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: 1982
• Convention on the Rights of the Child – Signature: 1990, Ratification/Accession: 1991
• ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) – Not Ratified
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Yes

For more information visit the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)