A/HRC/19/72 95. The expert also recommends that once it has finished its work, the Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission prepare and publish a white paper on human rights violations during the period 2002–2011 and on the identification of places that symbolize these violations for all the Ivorian people. 96. In combating impunity the justice system will need to balance the need to punish with the promotion of national reconciliation by impartially and systematically prosecuting all those who committed serious human rights violations between 2002 and 2011. 97. The independent expert recommends that the Government provide the judiciary with the necessary human and material resources, and that it relieve the detention system by freeing those who have committed minor crimes and bringing the remaining prisoners to justice swiftly with due respect for recognized judicial safeguards. 98. The expert recommends that civil and political rights be harmonized with economic, social and cultural rights. In this connection the Government must make every effort to promote the country’s economic development and the collective prosperity of the Ivorian people, respecting the equality between regions and communities, including by implementing a socio-economic development and recovery plan for young people and women by establishing a dedicated cross-cutting government entity. 99. The Government should develop a nationwide rural land policy in consultation and cooperation with the concerned communities in order to gain a clear picture of the issue of land and its prosperity, break the link between land and ethnicity and foster cooperation and complementarity in land use for shared prosperity. 100. The implementation of a broad programme to educate people about human rights and their importance, including (a) the active promotion of the traditional values, practices and mechanisms of all the communities in order to foster coexistence and mutual respect; (b) the promotion, throughout the educational system, of a culture of peace, diversity and pluralism; and (c) the delivery of human rights education to all members of the security forces. 101. The expert encourages the Government to promote international regional and subregional cooperation, particularly in the spirit of the joint council of ministers of Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso. 102. The expert also recommends that the Ivorian people’s rich cultural and artistic creativity, in particular that of the country’s youth, be encouraged not only to express feelings and emotions curbed and stifled by years of crisis but also the positive values of pluralism and coexistence. 2. Recommendations to the international community 103. The international community must increase its involvement in Côte d’Ivoire by (a) steadfastly supporting the ongoing democratic process, in particular the strengthening of political pluralism; (b) providing assistance to the Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation Commission; (c) strengthening the judiciary and the security apparatus; (d) supporting the promotion of human rights, particularly through education and material support to human rights defence organizations; and (e) strengthening UNOCI, particularly its Human Rights Division. 104. The expert calls on all international and regional financial institutions and bilateral partners to contribute through active cooperation to the economic recovery GE.12-10060 17

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents