A/HRC/32/47 (h) Permit human rights defenders and independent civil society organizations, including gender-specific organizations, to operate without interference. (c) Military/national service 121. The commission further recommends that the Government of Eritrea: (a) Discontinue indefinite military/national service by limiting it to 18 months for all current and future conscripts, as stipulated by the Proclamation on national service; (b) Put an immediate end to torture and ill-treatment, sexual violence and the enslavement of conscripts; (c) Provide conscripts with humane living conditions, including with regard to food, health care and shelter; (d) Cease the practice of using conscripts, detainees and members of the militia and reserve army as forced labour; (e) Establish an independent complaint mechanism for conscripts to raise allegations of ill-treatment and to obtain redress; (f) Ensure that military commanders responsible for human rights abuses are held accountable. (d) Arbitrary arrest, detention and enforced disappearances 122. The commission recommends that the Government of Eritrea: (a) Put an end to the practice of arrests and detention carried out without legal basis, and release immediately and unconditionally all those unlawfully and arbitrarily detained; (b) Provide information on the fate and whereabouts of all those deprived of physical liberty; (c) Review all cases of detainees who have been convicted of an offence in judicial or similar proceedings but were not accorded the procedural rights guaranteed in the international instruments to which Eritrea is party; (d) Provide immediately information on all prisoners of war, and release them as soon as possible; (e) Allow access to detainees by legal representatives and family members; (f) Close all secret places of detention; (g) Improve the conditions of detention to bring them into line with international standards and, in particular, ensure access to medical treatment for all detainees; (h) Ensure that solitary confinement remains an exceptional measure of limited duration; (i) Allow independent monitoring of all places of detention with regard to both legality and conditions of detention; (j) Immediately permit unhindered access by independent monitors, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and other recognized organizations, to all places of detention, official and unofficial, to 20