HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA, Annual Report 2020 CONTENTS MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION MESSAGE OF THE CHAIRPERSON CONTENTS LIST OF ACRONYMS STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN SRI LANKA 2020 CHAPTER 1: THE COMMISSION 1.1. Overview of the Commission 1.1.1.Vision 1.1.2.Mission 1.1.3.Core values 1.1.4.Strategic focus areas 1.1.5. Crest of the Commission 1.2. Nature and Scope of the mandate 1.3. Organizational Structure 2 3 7 12 16 16 16 16 16 17 18 20 CHAPTER 2: YEAR IN REVIEW 2.1. Key achievements 2.1.1. Investigations and inquiries 2.1.2. Outreach programmes 2.1.3. Institutional development 2.2. Recommendations to the Government 2.3. Other advocacy for reform 2.4. Vetting of Sri Lankan Military personnel to be deployed as UN peacekeepers 2.5. Challenges 25 26 26 27 29 30 37 CHAPTER 3: INVESTIGATIONS AND INQUIRIES 3.1 Overview 3.1.1. Strengthening working methods 3.1.2.Statistics of complaints received 3.1.3.Statistics of cases concluded in 2020 3.1.4.Recommendations 3.1.5.Public Consultations of the Commission 3.2 Examples of individual complaints by category of rights 3.2.1.Custodial violence (Article 11 of the Constitution) 3.2.2.Equality and non-discrimination (Article 12 of the Constitution) 3.2.3.Multiple rights violations 41 42 42 43 7 39 40 53 54 55 58