Committee Against Torture, session 35 (2005)
RECOMMENDATIONS/OBSERVATIONS ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE'S CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS TO STATES EXAMINED IN SESSION 35 (14-25 NOVEMBER 2006)
Sri Lanka
(15 December 2005, CAT/C/LKA/CO/1/CRP.2, Concluding observations on second report, para. 3)
"The Committee notes with satisfaction the following positive developments:
g) the recent abolition of corporal punishment by Act No. 23 of 2005."