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) However, this is yet to be implemented by the State. (g) Formulate and adopt a national resettlement policy to adequately address the needs of displaced persons and victims of enforced disappearances and incorporate the existing national involuntary resettlement policy into domestic law; Paragraph 67 (h) Pay equal attention to all victims, regardless of their ethnicity, in respect of memorials and consider integrating this principle into future activities related to this element of reparation; Paragraph 68-69 Families of the Disappeared The displaced were settled up to some extent but no such specific focus on disappeared. ICJ A resettlement policy specifically targeting victims of enforced disappearance has not been put in place. The National Involuntary Resettlement Policy is yet to be adopted into legislation. Implementing agencies are not obliged to apply the principles enshrined in the NIRP. Therefore, affected persons are unable to rely on the NIRP principles, as a matter of right, in case their land is being acquired. Full compliance requires the government to amend the existing laws.115 OMP See response to recommendation 84(i). Centre for Justice and Change Memorial events are getting more and more strengthened, it fails to bring national integration. The approaches are different to memorial events. Victor –victim approach hampers much. Families of the Disappeared h) There is a clear division according to ethnicity. South racists oppose doing anything for the Tamils. ICJ The Working Group welcomes that the principle of nondiscrimination was included in the Office for Reparation Act. It notes information received that there continues to be concerns regarding distinctions based on ethnicity and calls on the government to take steps to ensure all victims receive equal attention with regards to memorials and reparations. 85 National Agency for Public Private Partnership, Framework Development And Infrastructure Financing To Support Public Private Partnerships: Resettlement Policy Framework (Rpf), Ministry of Finance, 24, April 2018, http://www.treasury.gov.lk/documents/10181/272149/RPF-NAPPP+-+For+disclosure.pdf/aa720af8-413f4394-9ec7-1693ff487bc3 A/HRC/42/40/Add.1 115 The Working Group regrets that this recommendation has not been implemented and encourages the government to take action in this regard.

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