WOMEN’S AND MINORITY RIGHTS IN SRI LANKA’S TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE PROCESS
The team: Speakers and few others posed for a phtograph after the side event. (c) s.deshapriya.
On Friday 17th March at the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council, the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR), jointly with Franciscans International and Minority Rights Group International (MRG), held a side event titled “Women’s and Minority Rights in Sri Lanka’s Transitional Justice Process”.
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The event was moderated by Ms. Anastasia Crickley, Chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) default_external link. Following three civil society representatives from Sri Lanka, Dr Nimalka Fernando, Ms. Saroja Sivachandran and Ms. Jensila Majeed, Ms. Rita Izsák-Ndiaye, the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues shared her findings from the country visit to Sri Lanka in October 2016. When opening the event, Ms. Crickley noted recent changes in Sri Lanka, and she informed the audience that the event aims to identify challenges and steps to be taken at the Sri Lanka’s transitional justice process through the lenses of women and minorities.
