HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA, Annual Report 2018 discussions of relevance to the Commission convened by other public institutions. During 2018, HRCSL provided conducted lectures, and participated in discussions on a wide array of topics of interest. The following is a selected list of such events the HRCSL Head Office contributed to: a) Contributing expertise to progress monitoring meetings on the implementation of National Human Rights Action Plan (2016-2021) convened by the Prime Minister’ Office. This activity included attending meetings of the Sectoral Monitoring Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights convened by the Ministry of National Policies and Economic Affairs; Sectoral Committee Meeting on Prevention of torture convened by the Ministry of Law and Order and Sectoral Committee meetings to monitor the implementation of National Human Rights Action Plan convened by other line ministries, e.g., Women and Children Affairs Ministry and Labour Ministry b) Training on Human Rights Concepts periodically organized by the Department of Prisons at the Welikada Training Institute for the benefit of prison officers c) Awareness Raising lectures as part of periodic workshops organized by the Directorate of Humanitarian Law and Human Rights of the Sri Lanka Army d) Programme titled “Gender Equality, Sexual Harassment in Work Places and its Legal Profile: Can We Make a Change?” conducted on 09 March 2018 in commemoration of International Women’s Day for the benefit of the staff of National Mental Health Institution at Angoda. e) Forum discussion on the National Action Plan to combat corruption in Sri Lanka convened by the Presidential Secretariat on 18 January 2018 79

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