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) Centre for Justice and Change This Act has not been revisited. It remains the same and inadequate. personnel assigned to this programme are fully vetted; Families of the Disappeared Though the PVCW act is there for some time, no news about anyone who used it. Once FoD also handed over a petition demanding the security of the Police officer who handles some inquiries into disappearances and some witnesses from NAVY .No harm has happened to them up to now but did not hear whether that authority has taken any steps regarding that. ICJ The Assistance to and Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses Act of 2015 has been amended once since its enactment. However, the 2017 amendment was limited to the broadening of Section 31 which now allows for any witness living outside the country to testify within the premises of the respective mission. (Available at https://srilankalaw.lk/gazette/2017_pdf/27-2017_E.pdf ) ITJP Please see our report: http://www.itjpsl.com/reports/witness-protection and also http://www.itjpsl.com/assets/press/8-july-2016-ITJP-press-release.pdf Nothing has been done to address these issues we raised in 2016. (g) Ensure that each and every existing and new complaint made about a missing person is properly registered and investigated by the police; Paragraph 18 Government See response to 18 (f) OMP Sri Lanka Police has forwarded to the OMP a list of persons that have been reported as missing or disappeared to the Sri Lanka Police. The OMP is in the process of obtaining further information concerning the status of relevant investigations and the circumstances in which such persons went missing or were disappeared. The Working Group notes that the OMP is charged with creating a database of missing persons. However, it is concerned by the slow progress of investigation of cases open with the Police. It is also seriously concerned by information according to which there are also new cases of A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 36 Recommendations A/HRC/33/51/Add.2