A/HRC/3/2 page 8 (i) The Council should establish a follow-up procedure to monitor the human rights situation in Lebanon, taking into account the conclusions and recommendations of this report; Weapons (j) The Council should take the initiative to promote urgent action to include cluster munitions to the list of weapons banned under international law. The Council should request the relevant international bodies, including the Meetings of States Parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects and to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, to address the legality of some weapons particularly indiscriminate to the civilian population, including weapons which use depleted uranium; (k) The scientific research currently under way in Lebanon and abroad on the effects of certain weapons used during the conflict needs to be continued. The results will be decisive in the examination of the lawfulness of certain “new weapons” in the light of international humanitarian law. The Council should encourage these efforts and follow-up developments; (l) The Council should strongly call upon Israel to immediately hand over to UNIFIL and the Government of Lebanon full and detailed information on the use, and of all coordinates of cluster munitions launched in Lebanon to enable timely clearance of unexploded ordnance (UXO), avert continued death toll and injury, enable the return of displaced persons to their communities and resumption of normal social and economic life; Redress violations of international humanitarian law and human rights (m) It is important to address and promote legal means for individuals to redress violations of human rights and humanitarian law during conflicts. This is an urgent issue for particular regions and countries not covered by existing human rights mechanisms. Once more, the issue of individual complaints concerning violations of international humanitarian law arises; (n) The Commission draws the attention of the Council to the serious lacunae in international law, international humanitarian and human rights law as regards the possibility of victims to seek and obtain reparations and compensation. In this regard, the Commission proposes that the Council could explore possibilities aimed at the creation of a commission competent to examine individual claims; (o) A commission of arbitration could be envisaged between the interested parties to examine issues of reparations; (p) The Commission calls upon the Council to follow closely, and upon the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to accord whatever assistance it can, to the work of the Lebanese Parliamentary Human Rights Committee for it to complete its comprehensive investigation into reported killings and other alleged serious international humanitarian law and human rights violations.

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