{"id":4712,"date":"2022-09-12T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiaposts.com\/un-presses-sri-lanka-to-advance-human-rights-amid-economic-crisis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:24:10","slug":"un-presses-sri-lanka-to-advance-human-rights-amid-economic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiaposts.com\/un-presses-sri-lanka-to-advance-human-rights-amid-economic-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"UN presses Sri Lanka to advance human rights amid economic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>COLOMBO: Sri Lanka should improve human rights and strengthen institutions to tackle the humanitarian challenges that have sprung from its worst financial crisis in seven decades, a top UN Human Rights official said on Monday (Sep 12).<\/p>\n<p>UN member states and international financial institutions should support Sri Lanka as it tries to assist millions struggling with food, fuel, power and medicine shortages, said Nada Al-Nashif, UN Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I encourage the new government to embark on a national dialogue to advance human rights and reconciliation and to carry out the deeper institutional, democratic and security sector reforms needed to restore the independence of key institutions, to combat impunity, to prevent the recurrence of human rights violations and to tackle the economic crisis,&#8221; Al-Nashif told the 51st Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>She also urged Sri Lanka&#8217;s new government led by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to end the use of security laws to arrest protest leaders who helped oust former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in July.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry told the same meeting the government was committed to working with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on improving human rights, but would object to any international judicial intervention that it sees as anti-constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Nashif said Sri Lanka must make more progress towards establishing a credible investigation into alleged war crimes during the civil war that ended in 2009 and promote demilitarisation of the island&#8217;s north and eastern regions.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations and rights groups have accused the Sri Lankan military of killing thousands of civilians, mostly ethnic Tamils, during the final weeks of the war and have pressed for justice for the families of those who disappeared. 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