Sri Lanka

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Overview

A Human Rights Adviser (HRA) is part of the UN Country Team (UNCT) in Sri Lanka.

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News & Statements

Latest news

22 Aug 2024

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Sri Lanka: Transformational changes needed for accountability and reconciliation - UN report

17 May 2024

Multiple Mechanisms

Sri Lanka: Accountability needed for enforced disappearances

22 Jan 2024

Special Procedures

UN experts call on Sri Lanka to immediately suspend and review ‘Yukthiya’ anti-drug operation

12 Jan 2024

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Sri Lanka: Anti-drugs operation

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Latest statements & messages

09 Sep 2024

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Sri Lanka must break from the past and chart a new course

01 Mar 2024

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

High Commissioner presents updates on human rights in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Cyprus and Sri Lanka

11 Sep 2023

Multiple Mechanisms

Sri Lanka update

21 Jun 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Sri Lanka: promoting reconciliation, accountability and rights

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Featured Stories

Relatives of the disappeared hold pictures of loved ones during a demonstration.© Kumanan Kanapathippillai
21 May 2024 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Legacy of enforced disappearances haunts Sri Lanka

Fifteen years after the end of the war in Sri Lanka, families of the disappeared are still waiting for truth, justice and reparations.
Portrait of Sandya Ekneligoda © Sandya Ekneligoda
21 October 2022 Treaty bodies

Search for journalist continues 12 years after his disappearance

Prageeth Ekneligoda, a Sri Lankan journalist, cartoonist and human rights activist, was disappeared on 24 January 2010. For the past 12 years, his wife, Sandya Ekneligoda, and their two sons have been searching for the truth and for justice.
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UN and OHCHR Reports

UN Secretary-General and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

A/HRC/57/19: Situation of human rights in Sri Lanka - Comprehensive report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Advance unedited version

A/HRC/51/5: Situation of human rights in Sri Lanka - Comprehensive report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

A/HRC/49/9: Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

A/HRC/40/23: Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka - Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

A/HRC/34/20: Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka

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Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations.

Special Procedures

Reports

A/HRC/50/23/Add.3: Follow-up to country visits to Tunisia, Armenia, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

A/HRC/51/26/add.2: Report of the Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences on his visit to Sri Lanka - Comments by the State

A/HRC/48/60/Add.2: Follow-up to country visits to Burundi, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Sri Lanka: Report

A/HRC/43/48/Add.2: Visit to Sri Lanka Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief

A/HRC/45/45/Add.1: Visit to Sri Lanka - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence

A/HRC/44/50/Add.1: Visit to Sri Lanka - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

CCPR/C/LKA/CO/6: Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of Sri Lanka

CRC/C/OPSC/LKA/CO/1: Concluding observations on the report submitted by Sri Lanka under article 12 (1) of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

CRC/C/LKA/CO/5-6: Concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of Sri Lanka

E/C.12/LKA/CO/5: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Sri Lanka

CEDAW/C/LKA/CO/8: Concluding observations on the eighth periodic report of Sri Lanka

CAT/C/LKA/CO/5: Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Sri Lanka

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Status & Reporting

Status of Ratifications Reporting Status Standing invitation to Special Procedures Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

Resources

Accountability for Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka - OHCHR report OHCHR preliminary comments on Sri Lanka’s draft Anti-Terrorism Bill

External Resources

Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

Note: OHCHR is not responsible for the content of external links.

Contact Information

Headquarters

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

Asia Pacific Section
Tel. +41 22 928 9650

Field

Office of the Resident Coordinator
c/o UNDP, 202-204 Bauddhaloka Mawatha
P.O.Box 1505
c/o UNDP - Colombo
202-204 Bauddhaloka Mawatha,
Colombo 7
Tel. +94 11 2580691 Ext: 2400
Fax 94 11 258 1116
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