Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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116.13 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Continue the process of constitutional reforms, including consideration of a new Bill of Rights that will, amongst others, guarantee the right to life and the right to non-discrimination on any ground | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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116.72 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Continue to investigate, in an independent and impartial manner, all human rights violations committed during the conflict and its aftermath, and to prosecute perpetrators and ensure proper redress to the victims affected, in this regard | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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116.77 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Establish a comprehensive transitional justice mechanism, including operationalizing of an Office of Missing Persons, a truth-seeking commission, an Office of Reparations and a judicial mechanism with a special counsel, as committed to | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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116.104 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of civil society actors and journalists and to investigate cases of threats and attacks against them | 4 - General action | Supported |
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116.111 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Take measures to provide the victims of trafficking with effective remedy, including compensation and rehabilitation | 4 - General action | Supported |
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116.94 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Continue to promote national reconciliation by preventing acts of violence and intimidation against religious and ethnic minorities, and by ensuring effective prosecution and punishment of perpetrators | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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116.175 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Reinforce its policies to provide asylum seekers and refugees access to education services that are available nationally | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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116.149 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Continue to take measures to end all forms of violence against women and expedite the finalization of amendments to the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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116.93 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Continue efforts to consolidate national reconciliation as a lasting response to the aftermath of the armed conflict | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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117.34 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Ensure, in law and in practice, that all detainees are afforded fundamental legal safeguards from the outset | 4 - General action | Noted |
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117.32 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Abolish capital punishment and commute death sentences to prison terms | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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117.38 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Move with concrete steps — most evidently seen through committed financial resources in the national budget, and appointed experts with concrete mandates — on all four transitional justice mechanisms | 4 - General action | Noted |
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117.41 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Develop an unambiguous timeline accompanied with a monitoring framework for the full implementation of its commitments under Human Rights Council resolution 30/1 | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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117.45 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Fully implement the recommendations of the Consultative Task Force on Reconciliation, including to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act and replace it with international best practice legislation | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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117.48 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation to review | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Continue its efforts to ensure legal ownership and restitution to long-term internally displaced persons and refugees, as provided by international law standards | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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116.91 | Mar 3, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Fully implement its commitments under Human Rights Council resolution 30/1 (Australia); 4 116.92 Continue making progress in the implementation of the national reconciliation project through the Ministries of National Integration and Reconciliation and of National Coexistence, Dialogue and Official Languages | 4 - General action | Supported |
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116.154 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Equip all police stations with a women’s desk, private rooms, and a sufficient number of female police officers, with a view to better ensuring women’s and girls’ access to justice | 4 - General action | Supported |
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116.135 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Intensify measures to advance women’s rights, including vocational training of youth and measures relating to access to justice, and legislative reform, as well as implementation of gender responsiveness at all levels of governance and policymaking | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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116.2.2 | Sep 26, 2019 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 28 - November 2017 | Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Development of a comprehensive and uniform compensation policy for the displaced and dispossessed. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Sri Lanka will continue to take steps to safeguard and advance the rights of children through national mechanisms such as the National Child Protection Authority and the Ministry of Child Development and Women's Empowerment. Sri Lanka will also continue to actively support international processes that seek to advance the rights of the child. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Sri Lanka will continue to work towards the economic development of the Eastern Province, which will uplift standards of living and the realization of social, economic and cultural rights, and also assist strengthening and smooth functioning of democratic institutions. Sri Lanka will also promote the dissemination and inculcation of best practices, good governance and political pluralism, as well as take measures for the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-combatants, particularly children and young persons | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Sri Lanka will continue its traditional role of consensus builder and participate actively in the work of the Human Rights Council to make the Council a strong, effective and efficient body - capable of promoting and protecting the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all - and will continue to participate in the work of the Council in norm-setting in the field of human rights. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Sri Lanka will take measures for the effective implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. | 4 - General action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Sri Lanka will continue to work towards the submission of its periodic reports to treaty bodies. | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Complete the process of drafting a bill on the rights of IDPs having consulted all relevant stakeholders. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | As a part of its commitment to guarantee civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights of its people, Sri Lanka will continue to align its development strategy within the larger framework of promoting local values and social protection for women, children, elderly and differently-abled people and other vulnerable groups in society and respect for human rights and good governance | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Confidence-building and stabilization measures: implementation of the action plan for IDPs and conflict-affected communities, including host communities. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Improve the capacity of the police in carrying out investigations, with additional training in interrogation and prosecution. | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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N/A | Sep 26, 2019 | Voluntary Pledge | Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012) | 2 - May 2008 | Sri Lanka has commenced work on drafting a constitutional charter on human rights that will strengthen the human rights protection framework in the country and bring Sri Lanka's constitutional human rights guarantees in line with its international obligations. The process includes engaging in consultations with civil society. The draft charter and the process of consultation will foster a national discourse on human rights. | 1 - Minimal action | Supported |
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