Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2 Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 Measures taken/current situation Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) mobile offices. In 2019, the OMP opened two regional offices in Mannar and Matara, and proposes to open its third regional office in Jaffna during the latter part of the year. It hopes these offices can be opened promptly and with sufficient human resources to ensure accessibility. Amnesty Amnesty International is aware of two regional offices that the OMP is in the process of establishing in Matara and Mannar. Centre for Justice and Change OMP offered to open branch offices one the east and one in north but did not yet open. Families of the Disappeared OMP commissioners are very friendly. They promise that they will adopt a victim – centred approach. But nothing has happened yet. ICJ According to the Chairperson of the OMP, the Office is planning on establishing 12 regional offices. Having opened the first in Matara, it is looking to operationalise at least 6 offices by the end of 2019 in order to make the Office more accessible to the victims and to reduce the inconvenience of them having to travel to Colombo to get in touch with the office. He also stated that the Office is committed to opening sub-offices in the form of mobile offices. The OMP is committed to ensuring that its public documents are available in English, Sinhala and Tamil. The OMP developed its complaints procedure, CoA application and instruction materials, and outreach resources in all three languages. The OMP’s press releases, Interim Report, Annual Report and all social media posts were released in all three languages. Additionally, the OMP launched a trilingual communications campaign over broadcast and digital media, which sought to raise awareness of the multiple contexts in which enforced disappearances have occurred in Sri Lanka. Centre for Justice and Change 43 The Working Group welcomes information from the OMP that it is committed to ensuring public documents are available in the three languages and has already issued various trilingual reports and communications. However, it notes that there appears to be concerns on this aspect among some civil society groups and encourages the OMP to ensure that all documents are available A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 (c) Envisage procedures that are easily understandable and documents available in Sinhala, Tamil and English; Government – September 2019 In this connection, it is noted that the Office on Missing Persons opened its third regional office in Jaffna, on 24 August 2019. OMP

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