UPR 42 – Sri Lanka

Statement by Portugal

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Chair,

Portugal welcomes the delegation of Sri Lanka and wishes it a successful review.

We take note with appreciation that Sri Lanka has acceded to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture.

Portugal recommends that Sri Lanka:

  1. transforms the death penalty moratorium into definitive abolition and ratifies the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR.
  1. ratifies the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol and addresses refugees’ limited access to personal and civil documentation, as a first step to ensure their human rights to housing and work.

Thank you.

 

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