HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF SRI LANKA, Annual Report 2020 therefore requires additional time to compile. Additionally, he also informed that the injured prisoners were treated by multiple doctors while others were transferred to the Welikada prison hospital and as such only the reports of prisoners treated at Ragama Teaching Hospital could be produced after consulting with individual doctors who treated the patients. This inquiry was ongoing at the end of 2020. 2.1.2. Outreach programmes Despite restrictions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission successfully conducted a variety of outreach programmes in order to promote human rights awareness and educate the public on human rights issues. Outreach programmes included in-person and virtual public lectures, workshops, awareness campaigns and discussions.  Virtual events to mark commemorative days in 2020 The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture in 2020 was important for the Commission as it marked the first time the HRCSL hosted a virtual event necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic related health guidelines. Two webinars in Sinhala and Tamil languages were held on 26 June 2020 on the theme “Torture and other Forms of Societal Violence in Sri Lanka: Parts of One Spectrum?” This theme was chosen in light of the understanding that often, various forms of social violence have common roots and that the HRCSL must work on all fronts to address endemic violence in society in view of the linkages between different types. A message displayed on the Facebook page on equal access to education during the COVID-19 pandemic 25 In a pioneering move for the Commission, the International Human Rights Day 2020 was marked with the launch of a digital awareness campaign. Thematically focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the campaign was designed to draw attention to the centrality of human rights in post pandemic recovery

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