Lanka report still on the agenda

The Sri Lankan Government has been pushing for the report on the investigations over the war, scheduled to be submitted at the UN Human Rights Council on March 25, to be deferred, but the report is still on the agenda.

The Council will hold its twenty-eighth session from 2 to 27 March 2015 at the United Nations Office at Geneva. UN Secretary General Ban ki-moon, in a note on the agenda for the twenty-eighth session, has listed the report on Sri Lanka as part of the topics to be discussed at the session. In its resolution 25/1 last March, the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to monitor the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, to undertake a comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations of human rights during the period covered by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, and to present a comprehensive report followed by a discussion on the implementation of that resolution at its twenty-eighth session. Accordingly, Ban ki-moon’s note says the Council will consider the report of OHCHR (A/HRC/28/23), followed by a discussion.