A/HRC/43/56 (e) Comply urgently with all obligations under international human rights law and international humanitarian law, including by refraining from all attacks directed at civilians; (f) Deposit with the Secretary-General, without delay, instruments of accession to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the first Protocols thereto, which have been ratified by the Transitional National Legislature; (g) Sign, accede to or ratify without delay international and regional human rights instruments to strengthen the promotion and protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the people; and most notably, that South Sudan become a party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, thereby complementing domestic legislation; (h) Become a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, or accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, to ensure accountability for human rights violations and serious crimes ongoing in the country; (i) Take the steps necessary to address and break cycles of localized conflict, including by implementing the resolutions adopted at relevant peace conferences, such as the Kwacjoc conference, held in August 2018, the Mankien conference, held in June 2019, and the tri-state conference, held in July 2019; (j) Establish special courts and conduct impartial investigations to hold perpetrators to account, and provide compensation to victims and their families; (k) Promote effective disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programmes; (l) Strengthen measures to promote disarmament, demobilization and reintegration, including by drafting legislation and regulations concerning the responsibility of security forces on keeping and storing arms; (m) Increase investment in programmes relating to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration in relation to children, including psychosocial support, education, vocational training and youth employment; (n) Ensure that gender-based violence against women is effectively addressed and not referred to alternative dispute resolution procedures, such as mediation and conciliation; (o) Immediately appoint a special representative on sexual and gender-based violence, as recommended by the Human Rights Council in its resolution S-26/1; (p) Fully implement the action plan on the prevention of sexual violence in conflict, in fulfilment of the commitments made in the Joint Communiqué of the Government of South Sudan and the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict; (q) Ensure that the national justice system harmonizes the plural legal systems to strengthen and protect survivors of gender-based violence, ensuring access to justice, and reparations, including effective remedy, in accordance with the guidance provided by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in its general recommendation No. 33 (2015) on women’s access to justice; (r). Ensure that conflict-related sexual violence is properly investigated, and that that those responsible are prosecuted; (s) Ensure that all communities have rapid, unhindered and sustained access to humanitarian aid, prioritizing the acute needs of civilians in the Greater Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal regions, and take measures to hold accountable State and non-State actors who obstructed or unlawfully diverted humanitarian assistance; 19

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