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journalists and individual journalist in this regard, and urges State and non-State actors to
refrain from intentional violence against and harassment of journalists and to respect
freedom of expression; ;
4.
Emphasizes the need to hold perpetrators of human rights violations and
abuses accountable and to bring them to justice;
5.
Urges the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia to allow and
facilitate rapid and unhindered humanitarian access to the population in need throughout
the country, calls on the African Union and all States to support this essential effort, and
strongly encourages the Government and the African Union to increase awareness and
training among the troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia and Somali security
forces at the national and subnational levels on human rights and on international
humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians, with the support of the international
community, while noting that humanitarian access and security and the fulfilment of human
rights are linked, and that assistance efforts should take these linkages into account;
6.
Condemns the abuses and violations committed against children, urges the
Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia to take immediate steps to protect them,
urges non-State actors, in particular Al-Shabaab, to immediately refrain from abusing the
rights of the children and to refrain from hindering the essential efforts of the Government
in this regard, and calls on the Government, relevant United Nations entities and others to
strengthen child protection efforts, including by setting up the structures and committees
agreed upon in the plan of action and ensuring that child protection efforts receive adequate
support, including resources from Member States;
7.
Calls on the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia to take
immediate steps to protect women, and to end abuses and violations of their human rights,
in particular sexual violence, emphasizes the need for accountability for all such abuses and
violations, urges non-State actors, in particular Al-Shabaab, to immediately refrain from
abusing the rights of women, including forced and underage marriage, and calls on all
States to support these essential efforts;
8.
Urges the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia and subnational
authorities to seek the tangible and timely assistance from, inter alia, regional bodies to
reform the Somali judiciary system, to select and enhance the capacity of the Somali judges
inside the country, with a particular focus on the promotion and protection of human rights
and, in this regard, calls upon all States to provide assistance;
9.
Requests the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia,
in close cooperation with the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia, subnational
authorities and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and the
United Nations Political Office for Somalia to provide advisory services to the new
Government and Parliament for the establishment of a national human rights
commission, in compliance with the Paris Principles, as well as for a truth and
reconciliation commission, as provided for by the provisions of articles 111 B and 111 I of
the new provisional Constitution of the Federal Republic of Somalia, and calls upon
Member States to support this crucial task;
10.
Encourages the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia to develop,
with the assistance of the Independent Expert, a human rights post-transition road map with
benchmarks and timelines to promote and protect all human rights, including, inter alia, the
right to water and sanitation, the right to health care and the right to education and other
basic needs of vulnerable people, such as internally displaced persons, women,
returnees, children, minorities and journalists;
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