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Community Organizations Law & Society Trust
Law & Society Trust
Law & Society Trust
Acronym
LST
Non-profit organization
Phone number
+94 11 2684845

Location

Law & Society Trust
No. 3 Kynsey Terrace
00800
Colombo 08, Western
Sri Lanka
Working languages
inglés

The Law and Society Trust (LST) is a legal research and advocacy organisation founded in 1982 in Colombo, Sri Lanka by the late Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam. Our goals are the promotion of legal reforms for access to justice, justiciability of rights, and public accountability

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Resources

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The State of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Sri Lanka

Reports & Research
Marzo, 2017
Sri Lanka

Coming two years after a political transition from post-war authoritarianism, this Shadow Report to the United Nations Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights is framed in the backdrop of two concurrent processes of ‘transformation’ currently underway in Sri Lanka. The first is the process of constitutional reform initiated by the Government that was elected on the platform of restoring democratic, inclusive and accountable governance.

State Lands and Land Laws: A Hand Book

Conference Papers & Reports
Noviembre, 2015
Sri Lanka

The state owns over 80% of the land in Sri Lanka. The remainder is owned by private parties. Under the State Lands Encroachments Ordinance, all waste lands, forest lands, unoccupied and uncultivated lands are presumed to belong to the state until the contrary is proved (section 7) and all cinnamon land which have been uninterruptedly possessed by the state for over 30 years are held and deemed to belong to the state (section 6).