By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA The UN Human Rights Council’s first session of the year 2021 to be held from February 22 to March 23 is the most important because it opens with the participation of member states at the Ministerial level, known as the High-Level Segment. Often, Foreign Ministers, Ministers of Human Rights, Justice […]
What’s In Store In Geneva For The Sri Lankan Government
Sanja De Silva Jayatilleka
The UN Human Rights Council’s first session of the year 2021 to be held from 22nd February to 23
rd March is the most important because it opens with the participation of member states at the Ministerial level, known as the High-Level Segment. Often, Foreign Ministers, Ministers of Human Rights, Justice Ministers and others of similar rank speak at the Council on behalf of their countries and take up issues of human rights around the world.
As in the other two sessions held later in the year in June and September, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights presents her own reports of the work commissioned by the Human Rights Council. In addition, experts appointed by the Council on thematic issues known as Special Procedures also present their reports on their country visits and studies of human rights situations in the countries designated for scrutiny.
Posted on January 25th, 2021
By P.K.Balachandran/newsin.asia
Colombo, January 25: In all likelihood, Sri Lanka will face a tough resolution at the March session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva as the draft report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) indicates.
Admittedly, what Colombo has received is only a draft of the OHCHR’s case against Sri Lanka. It is to be modified with the comments of the Lankan government. And what will emerge eventually might be milder, having taken into account the rebuttals of the Lankan government based on its case that the allegations of war crimes are essentially unsubstantiated and one-sided. Nevertheless, the final document is expected to be sharply critical of Colombo.
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