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(g) To apply a gender perspective in its reporting process, including in information
collection and the formulation of recommendations;
(h) To provide appropriate assistance in the implementation by States of the Declaration
and of the existing international rules;
(i) To continue its deliberations on its working methods and to include these aspects in
its reporting process to the Council;
(j) To submit a regular report on the implementation of its mandate to the Council in
accordance with its annual programme of work;
3.
Calls on Governments that have not provided for a long period of time substantive
replies concerning claims of enforced disappearances in their countries to do so and to give due
consideration to relevant recommendations concerning this issue made by the Working Group in
their reports;
4.
Urges States:
(a) To promote and give full effect to the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons
from Enforced Disappearances;
(b) To cooperate with the Working Group and help it to carry out its mandate effectively
and, in that framework, give serious consideration to requests for visits to their countries;
(c) To prevent the occurrence of enforced disappearances, including by guaranteeing
that any person deprived of liberty is held solely in officially recognized and supervised places of
detention, guaranteeing access to all places of detention by authorities and institutions whose
competence in this regard has been recognized by the concerned State, maintaining official,
accessible, up-to-date registers and/or records of detainees, and ensuring that detainees are
brought before a judicial authority promptly after detention;
(d) To work to eradicate the culture of impunity for the perpetrators of enforced
disappearances and to elucidate cases of enforced disappearances as crucial steps in effective
prevention;
(e) To prevent and investigate with special attention cases of enforced disappearance of
persons belonging to vulnerable groups, especially children, and to bring the perpetrators of
these enforced disappearances to justice;
(f) To take steps to provide adequate protection to witnesses of enforced or involuntary
disappearances, human rights defenders acting against enforced disappearances and the lawyers
and families of disappeared persons against any intimidation or ill-treatment to which they might
be subjected;
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