U.N. report on Sri Lanka rights record deferred

The U.N. Human Rights Council will defer the key report on Sri Lanka’s conflict, due in March, to September 2015.

In what appears to be a clear shift in stance, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday said he had made a recommendation to the Council “to delay the consideration of a long-awaited report into alleged human rights violations during the conflict in Sri Lanka for six months until September 2015.”
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