Resolution On Sri Lanka Tabled At UNHRC

2025-09-10 04:08:20

(MENAFN- Colombo Gazette) A Resolution to keep Sri Lanka on the human rights agenda, has been tabled at the UN Human Rights Council by the main sponsors, the United Kingdom, Canada, Malawi, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.

The Resolution titled 'Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka' is a follow-up to Resolution 57/1 of 9 October 2024 and the original Resolution 51/1.

The new Resolution calls for the extension of the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner and all work requested of it by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 51/1, and requests the Office to present an oral update to the Council at its sixty-first and sixty-fourth sessions, a written update at its sixty-third session, and a comprehensive report on progress in reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka at its sixty-sixth session, to be discussed in an interactive dialogue.

The Resolution calls upon the Government of Sri Lanka to ensure the prompt, thorough and impartial investigation and, if warranted, prosecution of all alleged crimes relating to human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law, including for long-standing emblematic cases, with the full participation of victims and their representatives.

It also calls for an end to all forms of harassment of and reprisals against representatives of civil society, human rights defenders, journalists, victims, survivors and their families, especially women.

The Resolution also welcomes the Government's commitment to a renewed direction on several long-standing issues, acknowledges the reopening of investigations and prosecutions into some emblematic cases of human rights violations, as well as the Easter Sunday bombings, and urges the Government of Sri Lanka to accelerate investigations and prosecutions in compliance with international human rights standards, to seek international assistance to strengthen capacities, and to ensure the full participation of victims, survivors and their representatives as well as victim and witness protection.

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