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24 February 2021
AFTERNOON
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea and started an interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on her report on on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka.
Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, presenting his oral update, said he had seen no concrete evidence of progress or actual improvement in the human rights situation in Eritrea. He welcomed the release of a large group of Christians and Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eritrea, but noted that there had been no progress on the issue of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.
Posted on February 18th, 2021
Janaki Chandraratna
The UNHRC Resolution,
30/1 – Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka,
was co-sponsored by the Sri Lankan Govt., after the regime change in January
2015. It is well known that the West, in particular, United States of America
(USA), had a key role in backing the regime change. The new Govt. of 2015 was a
coalition of minority parties and the right wing, United National Party (UNP).
The 30/1 co-sponsorship is known to be an appeasement for minor parties as well
as a payback for the Western support for regime change. Currently however, many
a brow is raised as to why the 30/1 Resolution had failed to achieve its