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By Kelum Bandara
Sri Lanka will have a low profile approach to the upcoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) scheduled to start next month, Daily Mirror learns.
The UNHRC adopted the resolution 51/1 on Sri Lanka last year. The resolution calls for the Office of the High Commissioner to enhance its monitoring and reporting on the situation of human rights in Sri Lanka,
including on progress in reconciliation and accountability, and on the impact of the economic crisis and corruption on human rights, and to present an oral update to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-third and fifty-fifth sessions, and a written update at its fifty-fourth session and a comprehensive report that includes further options for advancing accountability at its fifty-seventh session, both to be discussed in the context of an interactive dialogue.
The content of the new resolution is largely based on the previous 46/1 resolution. It calls for further strengthening of the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to implement the evidence gathering mechanism on human rights and accountability issues in Sri Lanka. It also seeks to examine the impact of the economic crisis on human rights in Sri Lanka.
Daily Mirror learns that the government will not send any top level delegation to lobby for support this time, and leaves it in the hands of Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva to engage with the respective countries. The government has come to terms with the reality that it cannot secure the required number to defeat any such resolution with the UN system due to lack of numbers.
However, the government has repeatedly rejected the resolution which calls for external intervention to probe human rights and accountability issues in Sri Lanka. The next session will start on September 11 and continue till October 13. Sri Lanka’s case will also be discussed on September 11.
Sri Lanka has, however, taken domestic steps to bring about reconciliation.
joshua Tuesday, 29 August 2023 08:46 AM
Low key? send Nimal Siripala. He can sleep through the session
Marks Black Tuesday, 29 August 2023 10:24 AM
Human Rights have become a political tool and weapon of the west. No fair and equal treatment for all countries. As a result though it is an important aspect for humanity, the UNHRC has lost its credibility and respect. Sad state of affairs.
Aram Tuesday, 29 August 2023 10:37 AM
No domestic steps taken so far but took secret initiatives to disorder the day to day life of tamils using several tools/groups
Peace Tuesday, 29 August 2023 11:00 AM
Only reconciliation is two states in one country. One can see the yellow robes walking forcefully into Eastern governers meeting disrupting it.
M Radan Tuesday, 29 August 2023 11:53 AM
You cannot kill indiscrimiatly and get away with it. Not in this age, Sri Lanka has to face the music.
Sivalingam Tuesday, 29 August 2023 02:28 PM
Saudi Arabia is the biggest human rights violator, but white supremacists need their oil.
Brandon Kelly Tuesday, 29 August 2023 07:10 PM
You are spot on Sir.
Punchi Tuesday, 29 August 2023 02:44 PM
@Marks Black. If Human Rights is a political tool of the West, how is it that people from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, SriLanka etcand a host of African countries leaving their paradises and trying and dying to get illegally claiming persecution into Europe, Canada, US etc. recently I read in Aljazeera a mother from Ivory Coast is claiming asylum in Ireland claiming that she was fleeing to protect her daughter from FGM
Brandon Kelly Tuesday, 29 August 2023 07:11 PM
Economic prosperity is something else, please educate yourself.
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