Sri Lanka’s commitment to promote and protect civil and political rights has had a vibrant history spanning across a period long before its accession to the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights . Both by way of legislation as well as through executive policy, civil and political rights were accorded to people of the country by the 1947 Constitution and thereafter in the successive Republican Constitutions . In addition to those provisions, Sri Lanka’s international obligations under different regimes of human rights, were also incorporated into several national legislations
