Measures taken/current situation Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) According to Paragraph 4.15 the Psychosocial Support team has initiated a process to develop a strategy to integrate psychosocial responsiveness in the operationalising of the OMP. The three-pronged strategy focuses on a) strengthening the internal capacity of the OMP to effectively recognise and respond to psychosocial concerns of families and safeguard staff wellbeing.; b) through referrals, facilitate focused therapeutic and other psychosocial care to members of families whose wellbeing is critically affected; c) enable wider policy and social environment to recognise the challenges of living with uncertainties around the missing and disappeared loved ones. ITJP Given the trust issues, and the presence on the OMP of the Sri Lankan Army’s lawyer at the time of most of the enforced disappearance, the psycho social support perhaps needs to be done independently. (h) Be possibly integrated with an international component. Paragraph 49 OMP The OMP is an independent, domestic institution established under the domestic legal and Constitutional framework of Sri Lanka. The OMP is not integrated with an international component. From time to time, the OMP has sought the technical advice of relevant international and national experts on a range of subjects including tracing, excavation and exhumation, forensics, genetics, psychosocial support and database management. Further, as required the OMP has collaborated with relevant domestic state institutions such as the Ministry of Justice and Prison Reforms and the Offices of the Judicial Medical Officer and international organisations such as the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Centre for Justice and Change May be the ICRC plays a role in this. I am not sure the relationship or of any agreement between ICRC and OMP. Families of the Disappeared h) Do not know anything about that. ICJ As the interim report of the OMP expounds that international involvement has so far been limited to obtaining expertise and knowledge from international organisations and experts to enhance the functioning of the Office. The Working Group welcomes information according to which the OMP has collaborated with relevant international organisations and experts and encourages further collaboration. A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 50 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2

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