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ensure, as necessary, freedom from hunger and other essential minimum standards
for citizens, including those citizens serving in the armed forces;
(l)
Where necessary to ensure the right to food, seek international
humanitarian assistance without delay; provide international humanitarian
organizations with free and unimpeded access to all populations in need, including for
the purposes of effective monitoring; and hold accountable State officials who illegally
divert humanitarian aid for improper purposes;
(m) Abolish the de facto prohibition on foreign travel imposed on ordinary
citizens; decriminalize illegal border crossings and introduce border controls that
conform to international standards; renounce orders to shoot and kill at the border;
cease to regard citizens repatriated from China as political criminals or to subject
them to imprisonment, execution, torture, arbitrary detention, deliberate starvation,
illegal cavity searches, forced abortions and other sexual violence; and abolish the
State’s compulsory designation of places of residence and employment, as well as the
requirement to obtain a permit for domestic travel outside a person’s designated
province;
(n)
Provide the families and nations of origin of all persons who have been
abducted, or otherwise forcibly disappeared, with full information on their fate and
whereabouts, if they have survived; allow those who remain alive, and their
descendants, to return immediately to their countries of origin; and, in close
cooperation with their families and nations of origin, identify and repatriate the
physical remains of those who have died;
(o)
Allow separated families to unite, including by allowing citizens to travel
or emigrate where they choose; and immediately provide such persons with facilities
for unmonitored communications by way of mail, telephone, email and any other
means of communication;
(p)
Prosecute and bring to justice those persons most responsible for alleged
crimes against humanity; appoint a special prosecutor to supervise this process;
ensure that victims and their families are provided with adequate, prompt and
effective reparation and remedies, including by knowing the truth about the violations
that have been suffered; launch a people-driven process to establish the truth about
the violations; provide adults and children with comprehensive education on national
and international law and practice on human rights and democratic governance; and
seek international advice and support for transitional justice measures;
(q)
Take immediate steps to end all other human rights violations and to
address the human rights concerns raised by the commission in the present report, as
well as in successive resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights
Council, in the procedures of universal periodic review and in the reports of special
procedures mandate holders and the treaty bodies;
(r)
Ratify without delay the International Convention for the Protection of
All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the
fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization;
(s)
Accept immediately a field-based presence and technical assistance from
the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other
relevant United Nations entities to help to implement the above-mentioned
recommendations.
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