“ROLLING OVER” OF UNHRC RESOLUTION IS NOT A GOOD OPTION FOR SRI LANKA
File photo: Poster against High Commissioner Zeid in Colombo.
09/02/2017
Should Sri Lanka ‘Roll Over’ in Geneva?
The 47-member Human Rights Council (HRC) has a mandate to hold no fewer than three regular sessions a year, for a total of at least ten weeks. These sessions take place in March (four weeks), June (three weeks) and September (three weeks). Further, if one third of the Member States requests, HRC could decide to hold a special session at any time, to address human rights violations and emergencies. That was how the 11th Special Session of the HRC was convened to consider the situation in Sri Lanka in 2009, a week after the conflict came to an end.