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humanitarian law by their fighters will not be tolerated and that individuals responsible for
such acts will be removed from duty and will be held accountable;
34.
Urges all Libyans to oppose polarization and hate speech in official and public
discourse, which threaten democratic values, social stability and peace, weakens the social
fabric and undermines stability, peace and security;
35.
Requests the Government of National Accord, the international community,
the United Nations and all parties to the conflict in Libya to facilitate the full, equal and
effective participation of women in activities relating to the prevention and resolution of the
armed conflict, the maintenance of peace and security and post-conflict peacebuilding, in
accordance with relevant Security Council resolutions, and encourages the Presidency
Council to ensure that the women’s support and empowerment unit, established in November
2018, is fully operational;
36.
Underlines the importance of, and the commitment of the Government of
National Accord to, continued human rights monitoring, assessment and evaluation in order
to determine effective human rights technical assistance and capacity-building measures;
37.
Calls upon the Government of National Accord to increase its efforts to hold
those responsible for violations or abuses of international human rights law and international
humanitarian law accountable, and notes the cooperation between the Government and
international criminal and accountability mechanisms and organizations in that regard;
38.
Calls upon the Libyan legislative institution to carry out its responsibilities and
support efforts made to consolidate the rule of law and to enact new legislation to protect
human rights further in Libya, in accordance with international humanitarian law and
international human rights law;
39.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, while continuing its engagement with the United Nations Support Mission in Libya,
to continue to monitor and report on human rights violations and abuses across Libya and to
establish the facts and circumstances of such abuses and violations with a view to avoiding
impunity and ensuring full individual accountability;
40.
Renews its request to the Office of the High Commissioner to provide technical
assistance and capacity-building to Libya to promote and protect human rights to prevent
violations and abuses of human rights, and to ensure accountability for such violations and
abuses;
41.
Encourages the special procedures of the Human Rights Council to visit Libya
and to report to the Council, also through public statements;
42.
Invites the Office of the High Commissioner to work closely with the
Government of National Accord, relevant United Nations bodies, the African Union and all
other relevant regional and international organizations;
43.
Requests the High Commissioner to immediately establish and dispatch a factfinding mission to Libya, and to designate experts to implement, in an independent and
impartial manner, for a period of one year, the following mandate:
(a)
To establish the facts and circumstances of the situation of human rights
throughout Libya, and to collect and review relevant information, to document alleged
violations and abuses of international human rights law and international humanitarian law
by all parties in Libya since the beginning of 2016, including any gendered dimensions of
such violations and abuses, and to preserve evidence with a view to ensuring that perpetrators
of violations or abuses of international human rights law and international humanitarian law
are held accountable;
(b)
To work in cooperation with the Libyan authorities, the League of Arab States,
the African Union and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya;
44.
Urges the Libyan authorities to grant the fact-finding mission and its members
unhindered access to all Libyan territory without delay and to allow them to visit sites, and
to meet and speak freely and privately, when they so request, with whomever they wish to
meet or speak;
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