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) Wijayathilake as Chairperson, and Mr. A. A. M. Fatheehu (Colonel Retired), Mr. Rathnapriya Bandu, Dr. J. M. Swaminathan and Mrs. Sumithra Sellathamby as members of the Office for Reparations. Further under the 2019 budget, the government allocated 700 million Sri Lankan Rupees for the Office.108 Amnesty Amnesty International is unaware of efforts on this front. Centre for Justice and Change Office for reparation is enacted in law and it needs to move forward. The current political situation is preventing. Families of the Disappeared Reparation Commission has been established with Rs. 700 million allocated. A policy is not prepared. ICJ The Office for Reparations Act No. 34 of 2018 was passed in October 2018. The Office was officially operationalised with the appointment of the Commissioners in April 2019. Section 2 (b) states that one of the objectives of the Act is to facilitate and implement policies on reparations including specialised polies on children, women and victims of sexual violence. Section 11 (1) (f) states that one of the functions of the Office for Reparations would be to make rules and issue guidelines from time to time which shall include gender and child responsive policies. Available at: https://www.parliament.lk/uploads/acts/gbills/english/6107.pdf During the 2019 Budget Speech, Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera stated that funds will be allocated for the setting up and operationalisation of the Office for Reparations.109 108 109 “Commissioners appointed to the Office for Reparations” ColomboPage < http://www.colombopage.com/archive_19A/Apr04_1554401981CH.php> accessed 29 May 2019. Funds allocated in the 2019 budget to strengthen reconciliation, Colombo Gazette, 05 March 2019https://colombogazette.com/2019/03/05/funds-allocated-in-2019budget-to-strengthen-reconciliation/ A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 80 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2