The UNHRC report on Sri Lanka will be released today at 10.30am Geneva time (2pm Sri Lanka time) at a press conference chaired by UN Human Rights Commissioner Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad Al Hussain.

 The Office of the UN High Commissioner’s Investigation on Sri Lanka or OISL was launched following the mandate given to the then UN High Commissioner on Human Rights in March 2014.

The report had initially been scheduled to be published in March this year. However, the UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein had recommended it be delayed for six months to give the country's new government a chance to cooperate with investigators.

Making his speech at the inaugural session of the UNHRC 30th Session this Monday, the High Commissioner said that the findings of the report "are of the most serious nature."