CEDAW hits Sri Lanka again

The UN's Radical Feminists respond to third world nation's submission

The unelected bureaucrats on the United Nations’ CEDAW committee issued new instructions to the Government of Sri Lanka, on 25^th February 2025. True to their radical feminist ideology, they require law reform on prostitution, abortion, gender ideology and unmerited representation quotas – for not only women, but men who say they are women, in the leadership of public and private organisations.

Learn about CEDAW - here, here, here

How CEDAW came into local Sri Lanka law - here,

What they have tried to do in Sri Lanka before - here

How they dictate to countries around the world - here

Included in the fifth column contributing to the deterioration of Sri Lankan culture and effacement of the natural family is the Human Rights Council of Sri Lanka, among local activists and NGOs, who send their own reports to the CEDAW committee.

Sri Lanka’s delegation comprised of Saroja Savitri Paulraj, Minister of Women and Child Affairs, and representatives of the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs, the Attorney General's Department, the Sri Lanka Police, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism, as well as Himalee Subhashini Arunatilaka, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka.

The CEDAW committee acknowledged that:

“The Women Empowerment Act No. 37,(of 2024) .. introduces mechanisms to give effect to the [CEDAW] Convention”

Here are some instructions:

SOVREIGNTY

“Ensure that the Convention, the Optional Protocol thereto, the Committee’s jurisprudence and its general recommendations are made an integral part of systematic capacity-building for judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officials and lawyers, with a view to enabling them to directly apply or invoke the provisions of the Convention in court proceedings or interpret national legislation in the light of the Convention.”

That is – judges are to be trained to interpret Sri Lanka’s Constitution and Law according the UN’s radical feminist ideology.

PROSTITUTION

Repeal the Vagrants Ordinance and Brothels Ordinance.

That is, legalise prostitution.

GENDER SOCIALISM

The Committee

“with concern .. that there is no quota system for women in Sri Lanka and that positions in the public sector are allocated based on individual merit, regardless of gender, as a means of ensuring equal opportunities.

And deemed that

“special measures, such as quotas, preferential recruitment and promotion of women and gender-responsive public procurement”

be implemented. They are explicit that equal opportunity needs to be rejected for enforced “substantive” equality. They are explicit in declaring that a position should not be granted based on merit.

They persisted with even punishing any attempts at meritocracy:

“Introduce statutory quotas requiring political parties to ensure 50:50 parity, subject to fines in case of non-compliance, .., promote the appointment Indigenous and afro-descendent women, women with disabilities and LBTI women to decision-making positions in political and public life;

Ideology requires that the disabled be given positions at the expense of the abled, and that quotas would be necessary for female sodomites and males who are calling themselves women.

Strengthen women's participation in decision-making positions in public and private companies by adopting temporary special measures, including quotas, with a view to achieving parity,

SEXUALITY

The Committee seeks to redefine man and woman, and deny sexual differences and negate their complemtarity. They state openly that motherhood is overemphasised where women are concerned:

“The Committee also remains concerned at the persistence of gender stereotypes and discriminatory social norms in the State party regarding the roles and responsibilities of women and men in the family and in society, which overemphasize women’s traditional roles as mothers, wives and caregivers, undermining their social status, autonomy, and career opportunities.

Eliminate gender stereotypes from textbooks at all levels of education, and that school curricula, academic programmes and professional training for teachers include education on women’s human rights and gender equality;

And so the text books will need to show mothers at the office in suits, fathers feeding milk to the baby out of a bottle, and cooking in his apron. The other way would be “deep-rooted stereotypes” to be eliminated.

TRANSGENDERism

They seek to facilitate the legal recognition of men who identify as women and give them women’s rights:

“Reform the legal and administrative framework governing gender recognition and documentation for trans women by removing the requirement of family-dependent documentation, establishing an accessible and rights-based process for obtaining Gender Recognition Certificates, training local government officials on the human rights of LBTI women and non-discrimination, implementing an expedited procedure for updating identification documents to match gender identity

CORRUPTion of CHILDREN

The Committee wants the government to ensure via teacher sensitization and changes to text books, that children at “all levels of education” are taught about promiscuous behaviour, and contraceptive and birth control methods, and the right to abortion of their own children”

“Integrate comprehensive age‑appropriate education on sexual and reproductive health, including on responsible sexual behaviour, modern forms of contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, into curriculums at all levels of education;

ABORTION

“As a matter of priority, legalize and decriminalize abortion in all cases and, in the interim, remove judicial authorization requirements, restrictive time limits and other barriers for girls to access free, legal and safe abortion,

Ensure that all women and girls, including women belonging to disadvantaged groups, have adequate access to.., sexual and reproductive health services..”

LGBTQIA+

“Repeal sections 365 and 365A of the Penal Code, decriminalize consensual same-sex sexual conduct between women

Develop and implement a comprehensive national strategy to combat prejudice and discrimination against LBTI women”