A/HRC/28/48 (c) Continue to dedicate all necessary resources to enable the full implementation of the national strategy to counter improvised explosive devices; prioritize the further development of the capacity of Afghan National Security Forces to command, control and effectively conduct operations to counter and dispose of improvised explosive devices, including exploitation; (d) Continue to disband and disarm all illegal militia and armed groups; (e) Develop and implement detailed guidelines for police and prosecutors that outline the methodology, criteria, minimum requirements and follow-up mechanisms regulating mediation of registered incidents of violence against women; (f) Put in place, within six months, a concrete plan covering the next twoyear period to improve the status of the elimination of violence against women, including the measures recommended by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in July 2013; (g) Build the capacity of government institutions that work on the implementation of the Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women, with training on the Law as be a mandatory element of the training curriculum of police and prosecutor’s offices; and ensure that all aspects of violence against women are addressed through wider legislations and directives; (h) Establish an independent oversight and accountability mechanism modelled on the national preventive mechanisms in the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; (i) Fully implement Presidential Decree No. 129, particularly to ensure that perpetrators of torture are held accountable; (j) Ensure that Afghan national police, National Directorate of Security, other institutions holding detainees, as well as prosecutors and courts investigate allegations of torture and ill-treatment promptly and independently and punish perpetrators; and ensure that prosecutors and courts dismiss evidence obtained through the use of torture and ill-treatment; (k) Invite the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to visit Afghanistan to assist in providing a comprehensive response to preventing ill-treatment in detention facilities; (l) Fully support the public release of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission’s conflict-mapping report as a way of promoting peace and reconciliation; (m) Establish a moratorium on executions and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. 58. Anti-Government elements should: (a) Cease firing mortars, rockets and grenades into civilian-populated areas; (b) Cease the indiscriminate and disproportionate use of improvised explosive devices, particularly in all areas frequented by civilians, and stop using illegal pressure-plate devices; (c) Cease the deliberate targeting and killing of civilians and withdraw orders that authorize attacks on and killings of civilians, particularly religious personnel, judicial authorities and civilian government workers; 17

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