The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will adopt the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report on Sri Lanka during the 22nd session of the UNHRC which begins next month in Geneva.

According to the agenda of the session Sri Lanka’s UPR report is among a list of UPR reports of countries listed to be adopted at the council session.

 

The UPR on Sri Lanka was held last November in Geneva, during which, Sri Lanka rejected 98 and accepted 111 recommendations submitted by countries at the UPR.

 

Sri Lanka is expected to face severe criticism during the UNHRC session in Geneva in February and March. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay had said last week that she will also submit a report on Sri Lanka at the February-March session of the Human Rights Council, focusing on the engagement of UN mechanisms in support of the accountability and reconciliation processes.

 

Pillay had expressed deep concern on the impeachment and removal of former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake saying it further eroded the rule of law in the country and could also set back efforts for accountability and reconciliation.

 

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Universal Periodic Review : http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Highlights1November2012pm.aspx

Recommendations

States participating in the dialogue posed a series of recommendations to Sri Lanka. These pertained to the following issues, among others:

• Implementing fully the recommendations of the LLRC and investigating fully and transparently alleged grave breaches of international humanitarian law during the conflict;
• Strengthening of legislations to ensure transparency and non-impunity on all alleged enforced disappearances;
• Continuing efforts to combat impunity in relation to the past conflict;
• Developing a comprehensive policy with regard to all aspects of internal displacement, and creating a mechanism to address the cases of missing and detained;
• Adopting further measures to prevent torture and ill treatment, particularly in prisons and detention centres;
• Establishing a central register for all persons missing or in custody accessible to family members and legal representatives;
• Adopting a national policy on the protection of human rights defenders and journalists in order to prevent harassment and intimidation;
• Respecting the independence of the judiciary;
• Intensifying policies and programmes to ensure the protection of women and children and ensuring that all acts of violence against women were criminalized;
• Ensuring that those responsible for crimes against children, including recruitment of child solders, were brought to justice;
• Extending an invitation to the Special Procedures;

மேலே உள்ள செய்தி உண்மை எனில் இந்த நிலைமைக்கு சிங்களம் உள்ளானதற்கு முதன்மை காரணம் - மகிந்த கூட்டம். எனவே மகிந்த கூட்டத்தை ஆட்சியில் ஏற்றியவர்களுக்கு நன்றிகள்.