Sri Lanka: Monitoring and Accountability Panel

The Monitoring Accountability Panel – or “MAP” – started its work on 1st December 2015. GD Partner, Richard J Rogers, heads the MAP.

On 19 November 2015 the Transitional Government of Tamil Eelam nominated a panel of legal experts to monitor the design and implementation of the transitional justice mechanisms in Sri Lanka, including the judicial measures to investigate and prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. 

Following the UN Human Rights Council Resolution on ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka,’ dated 1 October 2015, the Sri Lankan Government undertook to establish accountability mechanisms to address the crimes committed during the Sri Lankan armed conflict. These will include a special criminal court with foreign judges and prosecutors. 

The MAP provides independent monitoring, advice, and recommendations, focusing on the effectiveness of accountability measures from a victims’ perspective.  MAP issues reports and its experts regularly speak at the UN Human Rights Council side events in Geneva.   

Further information can be found here.