Region: South Asia
Report summary: Sri Lanka’s limited recognition of non-female family caregivers, its lack of state funding of maternity benefits, and exclusion of domestic workers from its labor law coverage contributed to an overall poor score of 3.42. Nevertheless, Sri Lanka sports generous state healthcare services and nursing support for mothers alongside robust protections for forced and underage domestic workers.
The authors of this report, Dr. Anju Mary Paul and Shanya Sadanandan, have also discussed Sri Lanka’s exclusion of domestic workers from the coverage of nearly all labour protections in the Sri Lanka-based The Sunday Times op-ed on 13 June 2021. The full article may be read here.
Overall GCPI Score: 3.42/10
GCPI band: Emerging
The recommended citation for this report is as follows: Sadanandan, Shanya C. and Anju M. Paul. 2022. Global Care Policy Index 2022 Country Report: Sri Lanka. Singapore: Global Care Policy Index.