Sri Lanka meets UN Core Group; 51st UNHRC session today (12)

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Sri Lankan delegation in Geneva met with the Core group on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council.

Further, productive discussions took place on a constructive agreement and working together to archive effective and sustainable progress, said the delegation.

The Human Rights Council will hold its fifty-first regular session from 12 September to 7 October at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, currently serving as acting High Commissioner, will present the High Commissioner’s oral update at 9 a.m. on Monday, 12 September.

At an organizational meeting held on 30 August in preparation for the session, the President of the Council, Federico Villegas, bid farewell to High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, whose term of office ended on 31 August.  

Under agenda item two on the annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General, the Council will hold separate interactive dialogues on the report of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar on the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar; the report of the Office of the High Commissioner on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka; the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan; and the High Commissioner’s report on the promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua on 12 and 13 September.  

51 SessionIt will also hold an enhanced interactive dialogue on the human rights situation of women and girls in Afghanistan on the first day.

States will have a chance to respond to the High Commissioner’s update and to other reports presented under agenda item two in the general debate on 13 and 14 September.

The Council will take action on draft decisions and resolutions on 6 and 7 October, and will also appoint a number of Special Procedure mandate holders before closing the session.  These include the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons; the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers; a member of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, from Eastern European States; and the election of nine members of the Advisory Committee.