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Legal & Policy Documents

Child Laws

Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989

CRC Optional Protocol on Child Pornography 2000

CRC Optional Protocol on Child Soilders 2000

CRC Sri Lanka Country Report

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure

SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution

Trafficking UN Guidlines and Recommendations

UN Protocol onTrafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children_2000

United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto

United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Migrant Workers -1990

Convention for the Suppression of the Trafficking in Persons and of the Exploitation

Acts and Guidelines

National Child Protection Authority Act, No. 50 of 1998

National Policy on Child Protection 2020

Tsunami Act No 16 of 2005

Prevention of Domestic Violence Act, No. 34 of 2005

Right to Information Act, No.12 of 2016

Trainers Guide 2019-General Child Care Course NVQ Level 4

CYPO

Daycare Guide Line 2019

General Child Care Curriculum

Impact of COVID-19 on Protection of Children in Sri Lanka

National Guidelines & Minimum Standards for Child Development Centers in Sri Lanka-E

National Policy on Daycare Facilities in Sri Lanka - English

CIRCULARS

School Child Protection Committees- "Surekum Pauwa"

Hazardous Occupations Regualtions

Circular Compulsory Education

Islandwide Information on Pending Child Abuse Cases in High Courts

High Court Child Abuse Cases — Status & Updates 2026 January