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) ICJ Sri Lanka has only recognised the competence of the Committee on Enforced Disappearance (under Article 32) to receive and consider inter-State communications and has not accepted the competence of the Committee with regard to individual communications. (b) Ratify: (i) The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; (ii) The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; (iii) The Protocols additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949; Paragraph 13 Government Sri Lanka acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) on 5 December 2017, and entered into force for Sri Lanka on 4 January 2018. The HRCSL was designated as the National Preventive Mechanism under the Protocol. The UN Sub Committee on Prevention of Torture undertook a successful country visit (with unrestricted access to all places of detention) to Sri Lanka from 02 – 11 April 2019. The initial report of the committee is awaited. OMP Sri Lanka is yet to ratify the Rome Statute. Sri Lanka acceded to the Optional Protocol of the Convention against Torture on 5th December 2017. Sri Lanka is yet to ratify the additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions. Amnesty In December 2017 Sri Lanka acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT). No further updates on (i) and (ii). Families of the disappeared The Government is saying that Sri Lanka is not a signatory to ICC due to the braveness of the PM. That means there won’t be any ratification in ICC. 19 A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 Centre for Justice and Change Rome Statue is not ratified. Optional protocol to the Convention against torture is not ratified Additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions not ratified. The Centre for Justice and Change believes that nothing has been done in this area done in this area. The Working Group welcomes Sri Lanka’s ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. They note that the SPT visited Sri Lanka in April 2019 and encourages the Government to implement all the recomemndations made in the eventual report. The Working Group regrets that the Rome Statute and Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions have yet to be ratified and calls on the government to ratify both without delay.