Lunchtime Seminar Series:

The OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka: the catharsis moment for the protection and promotion of human rights or business as usual?by Mr. Glyn Morgan and Mr. Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan, LL.M. (Maastricht)

Glyn served in the British Army and British Police before spending six years in the Office of the Prosecutor at International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Thereafter, he worked for eleven years at Europol dealing with trans-national organised crime. Since 2012 he worked as an independent consultant on “international crimes” i.e. war crimes & transnat OC. From December 2014 to March 2015 he worked as Military Advisor to OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka.

Thamil is a PhD candidate and Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. His PhD thesis deals with the Sri Lankan human rights system and inquires the unconducive nature of this system to international efforts, predominantly the United Nations Human Rights Council, to promote and protect human rights.

The talk will, in its first section, shed light on the reasons for human rights abuses that led to the outbreak of the civil war in Sri Lanka and then, in its second section, deal with the mandate, working method and the thematic areas of the human rights investigation on Sri Lanka. The talk will, subsequently analyse and discuss the governmental response and usher into a interactive dialogue between audience and speakers as how this OHCHR report could serve as a vehicle to achieve accountability in Sri Lanka and promote and protect human rights.

All are welcome!

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