Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 Measures taken/current situation Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 The composition of the cabinet implementation committee is problematic http://www.itjpsl.com/assets/press/24-September-2018-OMP-cabinet-committee.pdf (c) Carry out wide consultation with victims, victims’ associations and other civil society organizations to establish a new truth-seeking institution, in order to ensure that it adequately responds to victims’ needs; Paragraph 36 Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) - Amnesty Although the Consultations Task Force has conducted island-wide consultations, there is generally no meaningful consultation on the framework for any of the TJ mechanisms. Centre for Justice and Change Truth seeking mechanism is not established. So far there had been no consultation with victims and civil societies in establishing the same. People were consulted in 2016 through CTF –SCRM established for this purpose but the Government has not taken their recommendations in formulating the mechanism. Families of the Disappeared This is a promise given always by the OMP commissioners but still nothing has started, ICJ The Consultation Task Force on Reconciliatory Mechanisms which held extensive public consultations stated in its report that it received a significant number of submissions on the value of truth seeking and the objectives of the proposed Truth, Justice Reparations and Nonrecurrence Commission. The Working Group notes information according to which the Consultation Task Force on Reconciliatory Mechanisms carried out extensive consultations including on the topic of truth-seeking and that a summary of submissions received on this topic is included in its final report. The Working Group regrets that the Institution is not yet established and encourages further meaningful consultations with victims associations and other civil society organizations with a view to its prompt creation. Paragraphs 15-21 of the Executive Summary and Recommendations of the Final Report of the Consultation Task Force on Reconciliatory Mechanisms lists out the recommendations regarding the truth-seeking institutions.72 ITJP This has not happened with groups outside Sri Lanka even though the victims are abroad too. 53 Final Report of the Consultation Task Force on Reconciliatory Mechanisms: Executive Summary and Recommendations, February 2017, Available at http://womenandmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CTF-Recommendations.pdf A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 72

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