{"id":105258,"date":"2013-09-13T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=105258"},"modified":"2013-09-19T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:18:25","slug":"unhrc-sri-lanka-says-approach-of-each-state-to-reconciliation-must-be-context-specific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/unhrc-sri-lanka-says-approach-of-each-state-to-reconciliation-must-be-context-specific\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHRC: Sri Lanka Says Approach Of Each State To Reconciliation Must Be Context-Specific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Sri Lanka has highlighted the highlight the need to adopt &#8220;a pragmatic, context specific approach in addressing issues of transitional justice&#8221; and noted that &#8220;the approach of each state to reconciliation must be context-specific, taking into account the particularities of each state and the aspirations of its people&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105259\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/unhrc-sri-lanka-says-approach-of-each-state-to-reconciliation-must-be-context-specific\/manisha-gunasekera\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105259\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105259\" class=\" wp-image-105259\" title=\"Manisha Gunasekera\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Manisha-Gunasekera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Manisha-Gunasekera.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Manisha-Gunasekera-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Manisha-Gunasekera-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manisha Gunasekera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Intervening during an Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on &#8216;Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-recurrence&#8217;<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Pablo de Grieff, at the ongoing 24th Session of the Human Rights Council on Thursday (12 September 2013), Sri Lanka&#8217;s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Manisha+Gunasekera&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\">Manisha Gunasekera<\/a><\/span> has observed, that &#8220;the Government of Sri Lanka has undertaken a harmonious and holistic approach to reconciliation, taking into consideration a range of cross-cutting issues including resettlement, housing, land, rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-combatants including former child soldiers, democratisation, accountability, demilitarisation, demining, infrastructure development, livelihood development, education, vocational training, trauma and psycho-social counselling, support for female-headed households and war widows, the trilingual policy, etc.\u00a0 These actions initiated shortly after the ending of the terrorist conflict in May 2009, are presently being continued in the context of the National Plan of Action for the implementation of the recommendations of the LLRC, in a time bound manner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Gunasekera said &#8220;this reconciliation process is also well integrated into the country\u2019s governance system through the wide network of line Ministries and Agencies.\u00a0 For example, the implementation of the identified recommendations of the LLRC through the National Plan of Action fall within the purview of over 20 line Ministries ranging from, Defence, Public Administration, Justice, Land, Child Development and Women\u2019s Affairs, Education, National Languages and Social Integration, to Culture and Arts and Sports&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Noting that Sri Lanka had briefed the Council on a regular basis on progress in the different facets of the reconciliation process detailed above, including under Item 2 \u2013 General Debate of the current session, the Deputy Permanent Representative said Sri Lanka is pleased that the High Commissioner for Human Rights was able to witness first-hand this multi-faceted nature of Sri Lanka\u2019s reconciliation process during her recent visit, and uphold the progress already achieved.Sri Lankalooked forward to the visit of the Special Rapporteur on IDPs in December this year to review progress in resettlement, to a visit by the SR on Education in the future, and remained committed to continuing engagement with the Council, as well as 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