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The Minister of External Affairs Dinesh Gunawardena stated that the Ambassadors of the Member States are being briefed on the resolutions passed against Sri Lanka at the Geneva Human Rights Commission.
He told the Hiru News team that a friendly response was received from allied countries that worked closely with the Sri Lankan government during the previous sessions.
At the last meeting of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, the Government of Sri Lanka announced that it was withdrawing from Resolution 30-1, which was agreed upon by the Good Governance Government.
At the same time, the Human Rights Commission was informed that a local mechanism would be established to investigate human rights.
Posted on January 26th, 2021
Courtesy Hiru News Foreign Affairs Minister Dinesh Gunawardena stated that a detailed draft of the response to the charges mentioned in the report submitted by the UN High Commissioner regarding Sri Lanka will be submitted to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva tomorrow (27).
Meanwhile, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed a 3-member Commission of Inquiry (CoI) to investigate, inquire into and report or take necessary actions on findings of preceding Commissions or Committees appointed to investigate into human rights violations, serious violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and other such offences.
The Extraordinary Gazette notification pertaining to this was issued on the 21.
Vulnerable Australians being left behind amid scramble for seats on coronavirus repatriation flights
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Vulnerable Australians stuck overseas, like Kate Monroe (left) and Simone Platovnjak (right), have missed out on repatriation flights despite being told they are first in line to get home.
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Frustration is growing among Australians stranded overseas who say they have been forced into a Hunger Games-style scramble for repatriation flights that is leaving vulnerable cases behind.
Key points:
Of the 39,000 Australians currently stranded overseas, approximately 5,000 are listed as vulnerable
Despite being told they would be first in line to get a seat on a repatriation flight, many have continued to miss out