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The move comes ahead of this week's release of an official UNHRC independent commission of inquiry report into Syria.

Sri Lanka's mission in Geneva responds to criticism by calling the former head of the UNHRC, Louise Arbour, unqualified to monitor human rights in the country.

Both countries were later elected to the UNHRC, which consists of 47 member states.

The UNHRC questioned the Justice Minister on how Ireland's laws comply with parts of the human rights convention guaranteeing the individual's right to life and prohibiting cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Meanwhile, the UN refugee agency (UNHRC) reported last week that some 7,300 Nigerian refugees had arrived in western Chad.

This week, the United Nations was criticised for electing Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the UN as head of a key UNHRC panel, despite the country's poor human rights record.

Britain allegedly helped Saudi Arabia's controversial election to the UN human rights council (UNHRC) through a secret vote-trading deal, leaked diplomatic cables have reportedly shown.

The UNHRC is also questioning Ireland on issues including non-consensual symphysiotomy, human trafficking, Traveller rights, asylum and the prevalence of religious schools.

On July 2nd Human Rights Watch said Sri Lanka was threatening members of Pakistani minority groups with deportation "at the very time when persecution of these groups is escalating in Pakistan".UNHRC has asked for access to the detainees, but Sri Lanka's government has only allowed the Red Cross to visit.

The protest in the former northern war zone is timed to coincide with an ongoing United Nations Human Rights Commission UNHRCC) investigation in Geneva, where the head of the organisation Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein will release a delayed report on Sri Lanka's war crimes tomorrow.

Last week the UN general assembly, in a secret ballot, voted out Sri Lanka from its seat in the UN's premier human rights body - the Human Rights Council UNHRCC).