Prohibition Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Sri Lanka==== In 1955 Sri Lanka passed a law prohibiting adult women from buying alcohol.<ref name="bbcsri">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42638758 |work=[[BBC News]] |title=Sri Lanka removes ban on sale of alcohol to women |date=January 10, 2018 |access-date=January 10, 2018}}</ref> In January 2018, Finance Minister [[Mangala Samaraweera]] announced that the law would be amended, allowing women to legally consume alcohol and work in venues that sell alcohol.<ref name="bbcsri"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2018/01/10/sri-lanka-removes-63-year-old-ban-on-alcohol-for-women |title=Sri Lanka removes 63-year-old ban on alcohol for women |newspaper=[[Daily Sabah]] |quote=According to Mangala Samaraweera, the Sri Lankan government is amending the law that installed the ban 63 years ago. |date=January 9, 2018 |access-date=January 10, 2018}}</ref> The legalization was overruled by President [[Maithripala Sirisena]] several days later.<ref>{{cite news |quote=He told a rally he had ordered the government to withdraw the reform, which would also have allowed women to work in bars without a permit. |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42682526 |date=January 14, 2018 |access-date=January 15, 2018 |title=Sri Lanka's president rejects move to allow women to buy alcohol}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page