Dahanayake et al. v. Sri Lanka

Comment:

The text of an individual opinion co-signed by Committee members Mr. Walter Kälin and Mr. Hipólito Solari Yrigoyen is appended to the decision. Two requests for interim measures that the State party should refrain from evicting the authors and their families from their land and homes or "involuntarily resettling" them, were denied by the Special Rapporteur on New Communications.

Substantive issues:

• same matter - another procedure of international investigation or settlement
• discrimination on other grounds
• right to information
• right to life

Substantive articles:

• 6 (1)
• 19 (2)
• 26

Procedural issues:

• exhaustion of domestic remedies
• victim status

Procedural articles:

• 1
• 2
• 5 (2) (a)
• 5 (2) (b)