N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Share its experience with regards to fighting rebellion and terrorism and how to overcome them, as well as on the measures taken to improve its social and economic development.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Public security
- Right to development
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Seek which tangible support the international community, particularly States in a position to do so, may extend to assist Sri Lanka in bridging these gaps in order to enhance the effective realization of the full range of human rights for all Sri Lankans.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 1 - Minimal action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue close dialogue with the United Nations human rights mechanisms, and OHCHR.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Treaty bodies
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue its efforts for the full implementation of international human rights instruments to which it is a party.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to strengthen its activities to ensure there is no discrimination against ethnic minorities in the enjoyment of the full range of human rights, in line with the comments of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Minority rights
- Racial discrimination
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue the ongoing inquiries into allegations of violations of children's rights in armed conflict, such as conscriptions and abductions of children anywhere and to adopt vigorous measures to prevent such violations.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to enhance the capacity building of its national human rights institutions with the support of the international community, including OHCHR, and seek the effective contribution of OHCHR to strengthen the NHRC.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to enhance the capacity building of its national human rights institutions with the support of the international community.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Pursue its programmes to develop former conflict zones in order to bring afflicted communities at par with those living in other provinces of the country.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to development
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue to work with the international community on protection of human rights, environment, disaster risk management, HIV-AIDS and capacity building.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Environment and human rights
- HIV - Aids
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Consider participating in core human rights treaties, as well as special procedures of the Human Rights Council.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 3 - Considering action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the adequate completion of investigations into the killings of aid workers, including by encouraging the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to use its legal investigative powers to their full extent.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen and ensure the independence of its human rights institutions such as the National Human Rights Commission in accordance with the Paris Principles.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Strengthen and ensure the independence of its human rights institutions such as the National Human Rights Commission.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Cooperate actively with international mechanisms in order to implement human rights at all levels of society.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Try to respond in a timely manner to the questionnaires sent by the special procedures.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Special procedures
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible for serious human rights crimes such as the recruitment of child soldiers, in accordance with international norms and in a transparent manner
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt measures to investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible for serious human rights crimes such as enforced disappearances, in accordance with international norms and in a transparent manner.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Encouraged Sri Lanka to further empower the various institutional and human rights infrastructures, including by strengthening the structural and operational independence of the NHRC.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- National Human Rights Institution
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure protection and security in IDP camps. and, while safeguarding the rights to return and to restitution, adopt a policy to provide IDPs with adequate interim housing solutions.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Internally displaced persons
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Address torture and implement safeguards to prevent torture and extrajudicial executions.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Extrajudicial executions
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that its domestic legislation is in full compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International instruments
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure a safe environment for human rights defenders' activities and that perpetrators of the murders, attacks, threats and harassment of human rights defenders be brought to justice.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt effective measures to ensure the full realization of the right to freedom of expression for all persons.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Enter into further agreements with countries hosting its migrants workers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Work closely with OHCHR to build the capacity of its national institutions and seeks States' assistance on counter-terrorism strategies, especially by countering terrorist fund-raising efforts in their territories and in accordance with Security Council resolutions and international conventions.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights and terrorism
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take further steps to improve the effectiveness of measures to combat the recruitment of child soldiers
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- International humanitarian law
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Recommended that the National Plan of Action provide specific benchmarks within a given timeframe
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take into account the recommendation made by the Human Rights Committee that it incorporate all substantive provisions of ICCPR into its national legislation, unless already done.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- International instruments
- Treaty bodies
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
N/A
- Cycle
- Cycle 1 (2008 - 2012)
- Session
- 2 - May 2008
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take other urgent measures for the re-integration of children who have surrendered to the governmental forces asking for special protection or who are currently held in prisons.
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Rights of the Child
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019