SEXUAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS A legal and ... - The ICHRP
SEXUAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS A legal and ... - The ICHRP
SEXUAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS A legal and ... - The ICHRP
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a. Bangladesh: <strong>The</strong> ‘Information system of the Laws of Bangladesh’ 11 website of the<br />
Ministry of Law, Justice <strong>and</strong> Parliamentary Affairs of the Government of Bangladesh<br />
contains official English translations of Bangladeshi laws till 1986 <strong>and</strong> a few<br />
important subsequent laws. Limited access to judgments of the Bangladesh High<br />
Court is available from the Chancery Law Chronicles. 12 English translations of more<br />
recent laws <strong>and</strong> of key Bangladeshi judgments were provided by local contacts.<br />
b. India: <strong>The</strong> website of Manupatra, 13 an online <strong>legal</strong> database provided access to all the<br />
required judgments of the Indian Supreme Court, High Courts in different states <strong>and</strong><br />
most relevant statutory law.<br />
c. Indonesia: <strong>The</strong> website of the Indonesian Constitutional Court has official English<br />
translations of some key judgments. 14 However, in terms of English translations of<br />
Indonesian laws, among the research countries these were the most difficult to obtain<br />
<strong>and</strong> were acquired from multiple online resources as well as local contacts.<br />
d. Nepal: No official website for Nepali jurisprudence or statutory law in English exists,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the authors have relied on the Kathm<strong>and</strong>u School of Law website or the<br />
assistance provided by NGOs such as Blue Diamond Society <strong>and</strong> Forum on Women,<br />
Law <strong>and</strong> Development who have obtained either official translations of judgments<br />
<strong>and</strong> laws or translated these themselves.<br />
e. Sri Lanka: A website under the Ministry of Justice <strong>and</strong> Law Reforms of Sri Lanka -<br />
‘LawNet – Sri Lanka’s Legal Information Network,’ 15 contained all Supreme Court<br />
<strong>and</strong> Court of Appeal decisions until 2005. It also contains key Sri Lankan legislations.<br />
Other Sri Lankan legislation is also available at the website of the Commonwealth<br />
Legal Information Institute (CommonLII). 16<br />
f. Thail<strong>and</strong>: English translations of Thai laws are provided by the International<br />
Translations Office <strong>and</strong> printed in the Royal Thai Government Gazette. Copies of<br />
these official translations were provided by local contacts. A few key laws however<br />
were not available from this source <strong>and</strong> unofficial translations available at the local<br />
<strong>legal</strong> websites 17 that were cross-checked with local contacts have been relied on.<br />
<strong>The</strong> countries to be surveyed all have a wide variety of languages <strong>and</strong> scripts, which has<br />
proved a hurdle in being able to obtain <strong>legal</strong> material <strong>and</strong> guarantee that English versions of<br />
these laws are up to date with all amendments. While every attempt has been made to ensure<br />
that laws <strong>and</strong> cases documented in this Report are accurate <strong>and</strong> up-to-date, there can be no<br />
guarantee that this is actually the case. Similarly, every attempt has been made to include all<br />
11 ‘Information system of the Laws of Bangladesh’, Ministry of Law, Justice <strong>and</strong> Parliamentary Affairs,<br />
Government of Bangladesh, available at http://www.bdlaws.gov.bd<br />
12 Chancery Law Chronicles available at http://www.clcbd.org<br />
13 Manupatra available at www.manupatra.com<br />
14 Official website of the Mahkamah Kostitusi Republik Indonesia (Constitutional Court of Indonesia), available<br />
at http://www.mahkamahkonstitusi.go.id<br />
15 ‘LawNet – Sri Lanka’s Legal Information Network,’ Ministry of Justice <strong>and</strong> Law Reforms, Government of<br />
Sri Lanka, available at www.lawnet.lk<br />
16 ‘Sri Lankan Legal Materials,’ Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII), available at<br />
www.commonlii.org/lk<br />
17 See for instance, ‘ThaiLaws’ available at www.ThaiLaws.com <strong>and</strong> ‘Law, Analysis <strong>and</strong> Features on Southeast<br />
Asia,’ Thail<strong>and</strong> Law Forum, available at http://www.thailawforum.com/<br />
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