The UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture will visit Sri Lanka next month, a OHCHR statement said.
In addition to visiting Sri Lanka the committee will also visit Palestine and Argentina along with other countries such as Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Senegal.
The visit to Sri Lanka will take place in early April, and a media advisory announcing the precise dates, as well as further information, is to be issued ahead of the visit.
The visits were decided during the Subcommittee’s confidential session held in Geneva from Feb 18 to 22.
To date, the Subcommittee has completed more than 65 visits. The Subcommittee has a mandate to visit states which have ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, and assist those states in preventing torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
The Subcommittee communicates its observations and recommendations to states through a confidential report, which it encourages countries to make public.
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