UNHRC Resolution 51/1 (2022)
The October 2022 Human Rights Council resolution that extended the OHCHR Sri Lanka Accountability Project — preserving the evidence-collection mandate first established under resolution 46/1 for a further two years.
51/1 kept the lights on. The Sri Lanka Accountability Project — the dedicated OHCHR capacity to consolidate, analyse and preserve information and evidence of gross human-rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law — was renewed by 51/1 in October 2022 against active diplomatic resistance from Colombo.
§1What it does
The Project preserves material from the 2002–2009 armed conflict and continuing patterns, with a view to advancing future accountability — including in domestic or foreign jurisdictions exercising universal jurisdiction. It does not itself prosecute.
51/1 renewed the mandate for two years and broadened the Council's attention to corruption and economic crimes in the post-2022 crisis context.