The International Movement Against all forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) called on the United Nations to “tighten its grip on Sri Lanka” to ensure it fulfills commitments laid out in a resolution passed in 2015.
In a statement delivered at the 36th session of the Human Rights Council said it shared “growing concerns on the slow progress of the Government in fulfilling its promises in Resolution 30/1”.
“Although the Government is cooperating with the UN human rights mechanisms, the political will to implement their recommendations is missing. Instead of taking action to restore the dignity of victims and their families, political leaders are preoccupied with own gains,” continued the organisation.
The statement concluded by saying, “as Sri Lanka’s internal-external gap remains wide, we once again call upon the Council to tighten its grip on Sri Lanka until victims themselves can call it the Council’s ‘successful model’”.
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