A/HRC/26/43 A. Genuine results to ease suffering on the ground 41. The Special Rapporteur urges all concerned parties, and in particular the Member States that support the universal periodic review, to seize the opportunity provided by the 81 recommendations that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea accepted voluntarily at its first review. In the face of the systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations documented by the commission of inquiry, no responsible member of the international community should be allowed to hide behind a procedural difference and idly stand by. It is therefore important to show that the universal periodic review process can yield result, not just on paper but in action. Many of the recommendations made at the second review overlap or build upon the 81 recommendations accepted by the State under review. In the time remaining before the twenty-seventh session of Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur calls upon all Member States to engage with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to accept and agree on concrete steps for implementation. 42. In the above context, the Special Rapporteur draws special attention to the immediate steps that the Human Rights Council, in its resolution 25/25, urged the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to take: (a) To ensure the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, as well as the rights to freedom of opinion, expression and association, including by permitting the establishment of independent newspapers and other media; (b) To end discrimination against citizens, including State-sponsored discrimination based on the songbun system, and to take immediate steps to ensure gender equality and to protect women from gender-based violence; (c) To ensure the right to freedom of movement, including the freedom to choose one’s place of residence and employment; (d) To promote equal access to food, including through full transparency regarding the provision of humanitarian assistance, so that such assistance is genuinely provided to vulnerable persons; (e) To immediately halt all human right violations relating to prison camps, including the practice of forced labour, to dismantle all political prison camps and release all political prisoners, and to ensure that justice sector reforms provide protections for a fair trial and due process; (f) To allow all persons who have been abducted or otherwise forcibly disappeared, as well as their descendants, to return immediately to their countries of origin. 43. Most of the above steps are similar to the substance of the universal periodic review recommendations acceptance by the State under review. The Government may choose to call those detained as reformed “through labour”, serving their terms in “reform institutions”,29 and deny the existence of political prison camps. Names aside, the same principles apply. The Government, through the universal periodic review mechanism, accepted to give all in detention a fair trial and to treat all persons deprived of their liberty with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human being. There is no reason why the Government should not be asked to demonstrate that it meant what it said. The Special Rapporteur encourages Member States to follow up the recommendation made by the commission of inquiry to form a human rights contact group to raise concerns about the situation of human rights in 29 14 Ibid., para. 60.