{"id":63652,"date":"2017-02-22T10:05:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63652"},"modified":"2017-02-22T10:05:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:05:30","slug":"publication-of-the-second-spot-report-by-sri-lanka-monitoring-accountability-panel-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/22\/publication-of-the-second-spot-report-by-sri-lanka-monitoring-accountability-panel-map\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBLICATION OF THE SECOND SPOT REPORT by Sri Lanka Monitoring Accountability Panel (MAP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>PRESS RELEASE: 22 February 2017<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>On 28 February 2017, the Monitoring Accountability Panel (MAP\u201d) will issue its Second Spot Report,\u00a0which will coincide with the 34<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0session of the UN Human Rights Council (the \u2018HRC\u2019) scheduled for 27 February to 24 March 2017 in Geneva. In the 27-page report, the MAP\u2019s international legal experts will outline their assessment of the Sri Lankan Government\u2019s transitional justice efforts to date, and provide recommendations going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Since co-sponsoring the UN Human Rights Council Resolution on \u2018Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka,\u2019 (A\/HRC\/30\/L.29,\u00a0October 2015), the Sri Lankan President and Government Ministers have backtracked on their commitments to implement effectively the four transitional justice pillars. In particular,\u00a0the Sri Lankan Government has\u00a0reversed its own pledge to include foreign judges and prosecutors in a special war crimes court, and appears intent on ignoring legitimate recommendations of the Consultation Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>In its Second Spot Report, the MAP will analyse these and other issues and provide its views on whether or not the Sri Lankan Government has fulfilled its legal obligations to the victims of mass human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>The MAP provides independent monitoring, advice, and recommendations, focusing on the effectiveness of accountability measures from a victims\u2019 perspective.\u00a0\u00a0The views and recommendations of the Panel\u00a0enable victims and other stakeholders to participate more effectively in the\u00a0transitional justice\u00a0processes.\u00a0For more information, please visit:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/war-victims-map.org\/\">http:\/\/war-victims-map.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On 19 November 2015 the Transitional Government of Tamil Eelam nominated a panel of five legal experts to monitor the design and implementation of the transitional justice mechanisms in Sri Lanka, including the judicial measures to investigate and prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Monitoring Accountability Panel \u2013 or MAP\u201d \u2013 started its work on 1st December 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE: 22 February 2017 On 28 February 2017, the Monitoring Accountability Panel (MAP\u201d) will issue its Second Spot Report,\u00a0which will coincide with the 34th\u00a0session of the UN Human Rights Council (the \u2018HRC\u2019) scheduled for 27 February to 24 March 2017 in Geneva. In the 27-page report, the MAP\u2019s international legal experts will outline their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}