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Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka and UN Charter-based Bodies

Sri Lanka and UN Treaty Bodies

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment - Mission to Sri Lanka (A/HRC/34/54/Add.2)

Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances - Mission to Sri Lanka (A/HRC/33/51/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants - Mission to Sri Lanka (A/HRC/29/36/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons - Mission to Sri Lanka (A/HRC/26/33/Add.4)

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights on internally displaced persons - Mission to Sri Lanka (A/HRC/8/6/Add.4)

Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat

Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka (A/HRC/32/CRP.4)
Sinhala and Tamil versions

Report of the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) (A/HRC/30/CRP.2)
Sinhala and Tamil versions

Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/30/61) - Sinhala and Tamil versions

Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on advice and technical assistance for the Government of Sri Lanka on promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka (A/HRC/22/38)

>>Full list of documents in the Charter-based bodies Database

Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2016) CAT/C/LKA/CO/5

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2016) CERD/C/LKA/CO/10-17

Committee on Migrant Workers
Concluding observations (2016) CMW/C/LKA/CO/2

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2014) CCPR/C/LKA/CO/5

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2011) CEDAW/C/LKA/CO/7

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2010) E/C.12/LKA/CO/2-4

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2010) CRC/C/OPAC/LKA/CO/1

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2010) CRC/C/LKA/CO/3-4

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database

Human Rights Advisers in Sri Lanka

A Senior Human Rights Advisor has been working in the UN Country Team in Sri Lanka since June 2004. The Advisor’s main role is to assist the UN Resident Coordinator and UN agencies in their activities to protect and promote human rights and to strengthen the human rights capacity of Government partners, national institutions and civil society.
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OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka

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Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Asia Pacific Section
Tel. +41 22 928 9650

Human Rights Adviser

202 – 204 Bauddhaloka Mawatha
Colombo 07
Tel: +94-11-2580691 Ext: 2400
Fax +94-11-2590037
Mobile: +94 76 6925500 077
Email: juan.fernandez@one.un.org

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OHCHR in the field

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Action 2

Technical Cooperation Programme

National Human Rights Institutions