vi) The right compensation; ( 24 25 26 27 to full Situation during the visit A/HRC/33/51/Ad d.2 Measures taken/current situation There are enduring concerns about the National Victim and Witness Protection Authority set up under Victim and Witness Protection Act. The OMP Act also sets up a separate Witness Protection Division. Centre for Justice and Change The victims and witness protection action is not revisited as yet. Families of the Disappeared (v).It is not a big problem of protection for the families in the South as under last regime, at the moment. We can gather, discuss and do any activities without any interferences from the intelligence units. But in North and East there are some few complains. Though OMP also has a unit for the protection of the family members still it is not functioning. OMP still tries to recruit officers for that and it will take at least another 3 to 6 months. “Victims and witnesses protection authority is there as a separate unit but not much news about its functioning or using by family members. ICJ While the Act on Enforced Disappearance does not make reference to the protection of relatives and witnesses, Section 13 (1) (g) of the Office of Missing Persons Act provides for the development and enforcement of a system for victim and witness protection without prejudice to the provisions of the Assistance to and the Protection of Victims of Crimes and Witnesses Act No. 4 of 2015 OMP The right to compensation for enforced disappearances is recognised under the Enforced Disappearances Act. 24 Further under Sri Lanka’s Constitution, the Supreme Court is empowered to order relief and redress where a fundamental right has been infringed.1225 The Assistance to and Protection of Victim and Witnesses Act, No. 4 of 2015 (Victim and Witnesses Protection Act) provides victims of crimes with a right to reparation and restitution for harm they have suffered. 26 The OMP has the authority to make recommendations concerning reparations, including compensation to missing and disappeared persons and their relatives. 27 Whilst recognising and promoting the right of families of the missing and disappeared to reparations, the OMP has made a number of recommendations relating to interim relief with a view to providing immediate assistance to Enforced Disappearances Act, above n 15, Sections 3(1), 3(2). The Constitution of Sri Lanka, Section 126(2). Assistance to and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act, No. 4 of 2015, Section 3(c). (Victim and Witness Protection Act) OMP Act, above n 16, Section 13(1)(f). Level of implementation and observations (to be completed by the WGEID) The Working Group regrets that the Enforced Disappearance Act does not include a general right to compensation, and provision of compensation is mentioned only in the context of a perpetrator providing compensation to a victim. The Working Group note that the establishment of the Office for Reparations. However, under A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 26 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2

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