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| Sunday, 4 July 2004 |
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Rare honour for our diplomat A Sri Lankan diplomat had the rare honour of presiding over the United Nations Treaty Bodies on human rights for the first time in the history of Sri Lankan foreign relations. Sri Lankan senior diplomat Prasad Kariyawasam who is also the chairperson of the United Nations Committee on Migrant Workers, was selected to chair this meeting held recently in Geneva. Kariyawasam has held many important posts in his career including that of Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva. Representatives of seven international human rights panels have backed a set of guidelines to improve how countries report on what they are doing to abide by their human rights treaty obligations, a UN press release states. The meeting also emphasised a more co-ordinated approach by the monitoring panels or treaty bodies and more effective follow up to their recommendations to reinforce the role of these bodies in developing national human rights protection systems. They underlined the importance of universal ratification of treaties, in particular the most recent one, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and members of their families. The draft guidelines will now be forwarded to each treaty body for further consideration. Following seven treaty bodies, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Committee on Migrant Workers, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Committee on the Elimination of Violence against Women and the Committee against Torture met at the recently concluded meeting in Geneva. |
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