Lankan delegation to leave for Geneva

Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Mahinda Samarasinghe will lead the Sri Lanka delegation to Geneva, Switzerland to participate in an interactive session with the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review UPR.

Sri Lanka will be reviewed in the second session this year on May 13 along with several other countries.

Under the UPR system, the human rights record of all UN member states regardless of their size, wealth, military or political importance will be regularly examined through a common mechanism.

According to the UN Human Rights Council the review should be based on “objective and reliable information.”