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Sri Lanka
Country Resolution on Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka
 
 
Resolution
 
WHEREAS Africa, the Americas and Europe have adopted their own Human Rights Charters and Monitoring Mechanisms and established special judicial tribunals under those Charters for the protection and promotion of Human Rights in their respective regions and concerned that no such mechanisms have yet been established in Asia;
 
WHEREAS the open-ended working group appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and subsequently by the new-founded Council on Human Rights adopted a Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances;
 
WHEREAS the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) and Presidential Commissions against enforced or involuntary disappearances appointed by Her Excellency the President of Sri Lanka have submitted extensive recommendations to the Government of Sri Lanka in respect of dispensing transitional justice to the victims and their families;
 
WHEREAS welcoming that the Presidential Commission was appointed by His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka, to investigate and inquire into cases of enforced disappearances and other human rights violations committed since August 2005;
 
Therefore we, the participants of the Third Congress of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearance AFAD guided by the theme - "Coming Together: Forging a Global Respect for the Right not to Be Disappeared" - held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from December 16 to 18, 2006, RESOLVE hereby to strongly urge the Sri Lankan government to undertake the following measures:
 
To adopt the Asian Human Rights Charta of 1998 which will be a decisive step for the establishment of an Asian Convention on Human Rights, in order to provide for monitoring mechanisms and special judicial tribunals in Asian countries, and to encourage other Asian governments to do so.
 
To ratify the forthcoming Convention on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance without any reservations and to invite other Asian state parties to the United Nations to do the same.
 
To implement all the recommendations issued by the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance during its three visits to the country without further delay.
 
To empower the Presidential Commission which was set up to investigate cases grave human rights violations, including enforced disappearances, in order to bring those responsible to justice when concrete evidence is available.
 
SIGNED BY THE DELEGATES Third AFAD Congress on December 19, 2006 in Kathmandu, Nepal
 

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