A/HRC/RES/30/20 (i) To continue measures to implement the action plans to end the recruitment and use of children in the Somalia National Armed Forces; (j) To implement, in a clear and accessible manner, a zero-tolerance policy on gender-based violence, particularly sexual violence, to include prevention of sexual exploitation and other forms of abuse, and to ensure that individuals found to be responsible for and complicit in sexual violence are, regardless of their status or rank, held to account; (k) To fulfil its commitment to sign and ratify the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; (l) To initiate effective and impartial investigations into the killings of journalists, to prosecute all those responsible for unlawful acts in a manner consistent with applicable domestic and international legal obligations, to create security and space for a free press to operate, and to take measures to protect and support civil society and human rights defenders, in particular in view of the forthcoming elections; (m) To treat disengaged combatants in accordance with applicable obligations under domestic and international law, in particular international human rights law and international humanitarian law, as applicable; (n) To ensure the protection and well-being of all internally displaced persons, including from sexual violence and exploitation; to seek durable solutions for them; to ensure a fully consultative process and best practice for relocations, as well as safe, sanitary new sites that have basic services; to ensure unfettered access for humanitarian organizations; to recognize the acute vulnerability of internally displaced persons; to facilitate full humanitarian access to people in need wherever they are in Somalia; and to safeguard the neutrality, impartiality and independence of humanitarian actors from political, economic and military interference, while paying particular attention to the rights, freedoms and needs of ethnic and religious minorities who require humanitarian assistance; (o) To continue to engage constructively in the universal periodic review process, including through its engagement with the upcoming review in 2016 and the subsequent follow-up; 12. Strongly commends the engagement of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia; 13. Stresses the importance of technical assistance in building credible and impartial domestic capacity to undertake monitoring, investigations and public reporting to identify human rights concerns and inform appropriate remedies by duty-bearers; 14. Also stresses the important role of joint monitoring and reporting on the situation of human rights in Somalia by domestic and international experts, and the role that those monitoring human rights can play in evaluating and ensuring the success of technical assistance projects, which in turn must be for the benefit of all Somalis; 15. Underlines the importance of the realization by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia of its mandate throughout Somalia and the need to ensure synergy with the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights; 16. Decides to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, under agenda item 10, for a period of one year; 17. Requests the Independent Expert to continue his engagement with the Government of Somalia at the national and subnational levels, civil society and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia with a view to assisting Somalia in the implementation of: 4

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