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regular access to prisoners for relatives, legal advocates and independent monitoring
mechanisms, and to permit prompt and regular unhindered access to medical care;
(e)
To put an end to the system of indefinite national service by demobilizing
national service conscripts who have completed their mandatory 18 months of service, as
announced by the Government of Eritrea, and by effectively ending the practice of
engaging them in forced labour after such a period, to provide for conscientious objection
to military service, and to end the compulsory practice of all children undertaking the final
year of schooling in a military training camp;
(f)
To end the practice of forcing citizens to participate in the militia;
(g)
To investigate promptly all allegations of extrajudicial killings, torture and
other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment, rape and sexual abuse within
the national service, and to bring perpetrators to justice;
(h)
To end, and to confirm the end to, the practice of shooting to wound or kill
citizens attempting to cross the border to flee the country;
(i)
To collaborate with human rights and humanitarian organizations and to
allow them to operate in Eritrea without fear or intimidation in order to facilitate the full
implementation of the Strategic Partnership Cooperation Framework for 2013-2016 signed
by the Government of Eritrea and the United Nations on 28 January 2013, and other human
rights-related projects;
(j)
To respect everyone’s right to freedom of expression and to freedom of
thought, conscience and religion or belief, and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly
and of association;
(k)
To enhance further the promotion and protection of women’s rights,
including by taking additional measures to combat harmful practices, such as child, early
and forced marriage and female genital mutilation;
(l)
To implement the recommendations made during its second universal
periodic review, to report on progress made and to cooperate fully with the Human Rights
Council and the universal periodic review during its third cycle;
(m) To end “guilt-by-association” policies that target family members of those
who evade national service, seek to flee Eritrea or commit any other alleged crimes;
(n)
To strengthen cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights in accordance with its international human rights
obligations, and to consider inviting the Office of the High Commissioner to establish a
presence of the Office, with a holistic mandate, in the country;
(o)
To allow unhindered access to the country to further missions by the Office
of the High Commissioner, the human rights treaty bodies and all mechanisms of the
Human Rights Council, and to cooperate with all international and regional human rights
mechanisms;
(p)
To provide the Office of the High Commissioner with all relevant
information on the identity, safety, well-being and whereabouts of all detained persons and
persons missing in action, including members of the G-15, journalists, those detained in the
aftermath of the takeover on 21 January 2013 of the building of the Ministry of
Information, and the 13 Djiboutian combatants still detained;
(q)
To allow the creation of political parties and to guarantee their political
participation, and to hold free, fair and transparent democratic elections at all levels,
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