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HRC 57: The draft Geneva resolution on Sri Lanka will be taken up today

Draft resolution 57/…Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka will be taken up at the 57th session of UNHRC today. (09th October). The resolution has been endorsed mainly by European countries except Argentina and Malavi.

Ambassador Himali Karunarathna who was fined by an Australian court for abusing domestic servant remains in the same position still and has been leading the campaign against the resolution among the council members.

 

Full text of the resolution:

Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session 9 September–11 October 2024

Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General

Albania, Argentina, Australia,* Austria,* Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada,* Costa Rica, Croatia,* Cyprus,* Czechia,* Denmark,* Estonia,* Finland, France, Germany, Greece,* Iceland,* Ireland,* Latvia,* Liechtenstein,* Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta,* Montenegro, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), New Zealand,* North Macedonia,* Norway,* Poland,* Portugal,* Slovakia,* Slovenia,* Spain,* Sweden,* Switzerland,* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland* and United States of America(* State not a member of the Human Rights Council.)

Draft resolution 57/…Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka.

The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international human rights treaties, Recalling previous Human Rights Council resolutions on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka, the most recent of which being resolution 51/1 of 6 October 2022,

1. Welcomes the report of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Sri Lanka,(1 A/HRC/57/19.) presented to the Human Rights Council at its present session;

2. Decides to extend the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner and all work requested of it by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 51/1, and requests the Office to present an oral update to the Council at its fifty-eighth session and a comprehensive report on progress in reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka at its sixtieth session, to be discussed in an interactive dialogue.

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