Cancellation of  Debate on Disappearance Bill in Parliament

Sri Lanka signed the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) in December 2015 and ratified it in May 2016.

In order to give legal validity to the ICPPED in Sri Lanka, the Government of Sri Lanka introduced the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance Bill, which was gazetted on the 09th of February 2017 and subsequently tabled in Parliament.

It was scheduled for debate  in Parliament on 21^st  September 2017 , However, Minister Gayantha Karunathilaka said,  that the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance Bill will not be taken up for debate on September 21.