The Imperative for Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka

Sarvananthan, M.; Sivakaran, N.

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dc.contributor.author	Sarvananthan, M.
dc.contributor.author	Sivakaran, N.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-12-08T03:34:54Z
dc.date.available	2023-12-08T03:34:54Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.identifier.uri	http://repo.lib.jfn.ac.lk/ujrr/handle/123456789/9919
dc.description.abstract	Between 2015 and 2019 Sri Lanka has been in the process of drafting a new Constitution in the aftermath of the civil war that lasted from 1983 to 2009. In spite of the very high human development in Sri Lanka, public expenditures on education and health as a proportion of the GDP have declined since the 1960s. Besides, it is argued that democracy in Sri Lanka is patronage cum greed based, and hence a case is made for inculcating a merit cum need based democracy for which justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR) is a sine qua non. Moreover, we argue a case for incorporating ESCR as justiciable rights in the proposed new Constitution not only on its own right but also as a means of durable peace-building in the aftermath of a savage civil war	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Journal of Law, Social Justice & Global Development, University of Warwick, UK	en_US
dc.subject	ESCR	en_US
dc.subject	Human Rights	en_US
dc.subject	Peace-building	en_US
dc.subject	Rights based Development	en_US
dc.subject	Sri Lanka	en_US
dc.subject	Transitional Justice	en_US
dc.title	The Imperative for Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004538627_007	en_US