Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 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) No archive (military or otherwise) has been inaugurated in the past four years for the purpose of archiving cases of enforced disappearances. (k) Promulgate a law on access to information and develop a proper legislative framework on archives so as to guarantee full access to all information according to which could potentially lead to clarification in cases of disappeared persons; Amnesty Amnesty International is unaware of new efforts on this front. Sri Lanka passed a domestic law recognising the right to access information in 2016; Right to Information Act No. 12 of 2016. The Right to Information Commission is presently active, and appeals to the commission are possible. However, according to section 15(1) of the legislation that establishes the OMP, the RTI Act will not apply to matters communicated to the OMP in confidence. The Working Group welcomes the promulgation of the Right to Information Act No. 12 of 2016 and information according to which it prevails over other written law. ICJ The Right to Information Act No. 12 of 2016 under Section 3 allows for the requesting of any information in the possession, custody or control of a public authority including any State archive. Even though the Presidential Seal placed on records of previous Commissions of Inquiry bars such documents from being accessed for 30 years, Section 4 of the RTI Act states that the provisions of the Act will prevail over other written law. https://www.media.gov.lk/images/pdf_word/2016/12-2016_E.pdf 86 Paragraph 61 OMP The OMP has reiterated the concerns expressed by past commissions of inquiry, as well as the Consultation Task Force on the specific challenges female relatives of the missing and disappeared face.86 The OMP has sought to ensure that its policies including its psychosocial responsive strategies are gender sensitive. As noted above in response to recommendation 79(g) the OMP’s psychosocial responsiveness strategy propose to provide support to family members at all stages of the search including in circumstances where death of the missing or disappeared person has been confirmed. In addition to gender dimensions, the OMP is sensitive to multiple forms of vulnerability experienced by families of missing and disappeared persons, including those who are in situations of poverty, single-headed households, families with children, families that have among them persons with disabilities OMP Interim Report, above n 2, para 19. The Working Group welcomes information according to which the OMP is undertaking efforts to ensure the psychosocial responsiveness strategy is gender-sensitive and includes support for families of disappeared persons whose death is confirmed. The Working Group hopes the policy can be promptly finalised following 65 A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 (l) Develop a gendersensitive policy and action plan to provide support and rehabilitation for families of disappeared persons, including specific measures to support families of disappeared persons whose death is confirmed through the new truth-seeking processes;