A Study on the Potential of Legal System in Safeguarding the Right to Education of Street Children in Sri Lanka
- October 27, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS Team
- Categories: Education, IJRISS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue X, October 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Samarakoon A.S
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
Abstract: uneducated street children are a challenge to the national growth of a country. Education can be consider as a mechanism which can increase the national growth. Although there is free education in srilanka, there are a large number of children like street children , who lose their education due to other expenses. . This study aims to find out whether sri Lankan legal system is potential to protect the right to education of street children. The research problem is whether the existing legal system is potential to protect the right to education of street children. The objectives of this study are, to identify the existing legal framework for right to education of street children in srilanka,, to identify the problem of legal framework in related to right to education and to propose the necessary amendments to existing legal framework to fill the gaps. Combination of black letter methodology and comparative analysis with indian legal framework is also taken as a research methodology. For the qualitative analysis primary data are1978 srilanka constitution, penal code no 2 of 1883, children and young person’s ordinance no 48 0f 1939, the adoption of children ordinance No. 24 of 1941, Education ordinance No. 31 of 1939, prevention of domestic violence Act No. 34 of 2005, and international covenant on civil and political rights. and for secondary data including web articles and journal articles.
Keywords: street children, right to education, national growth, legal potential
I. INTRODUCTION
Street children are the casualties of Economic growth, war, poverty,loss of traditional values, domestic violence, physical and mental mal practice.
A street child may be,
A child of the street- having no home yet the streets. The family may have deserted that person or may have no relatives left alive. Such a youngster needs to battle for endurance and might move from companion to companion, or live in shelters , for example, abandoned buildings.
