A/HRC/RES/35/34 4. Renews its commitment to strengthen international cooperation to prevent, counter and combat terrorism, and in that regard calls upon States and other relevant parties, as appropriate, to continue to implement the United Nations Global CounterTerrorism Strategy and its four pillars, which reaffirm, inter alia, respect for human rights for all and the rule of law as being the fundamental basis of the fight against terrorism; 5. Stresses the responsibility of States to protect persons in their territory against such acts, in full compliance with their obligations under international law, and in particular international human rights law, international refugee law and international humanitarian law; 6. Deeply deplores the suffering caused by terrorism to the victims and their families and, while stressing the need to promote and protect the rights of victims of terrorism, in particular women and children, reaffirms its profound solidarity with them, and stresses the importance of providing them with proper support and assistance while respecting, inter alia, considerations regarding remembrance, dignity, respect, accountability, truth and justice, in accordance with international law; 7. Emphasizes the need to ensure that victims of terrorism are treated with dignity and respect, stresses the need to promote international solidarity in support of the victims of terrorism, and recognizes the role that victims of terrorism can play, including in countering the appeal of terrorism; 8. Calls upon States to ensure that any person who alleges that his or her human rights or fundamental freedoms have been violated by measures taken or means employed to counter terrorism or violent extremism conducive to terrorism has access to justice, due process and an effective remedy, and that victims of human rights violations receive adequate, effective and prompt reparations, which should include, as appropriate, restitution, compensation, rehabilitation and guarantees of non-recurrence; 9. Stresses the importance of ensuring access to justice and accountability, including by developing and maintaining effective, fair, humane, transparent and accountable criminal justice systems, in accordance with applicable international law, as a fundamental basis of any strategy to counter terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism; 10. Strongly encourages relevant United Nations agencies to take into account in their technical assistance to counter terrorism, whenever appropriate, the elements necessary for building national capacity in order to strengthen criminal justice systems and the rule of law; 11. Reaffirms that terrorism and violent extremism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization or ethnic group; 12. Urges States to ensure that measures taken to counter terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism are not discriminatory, and not to resort to profiling based on stereotypes founded on ethnic, racial or religious grounds or any other ground of discrimination prohibited by international law; 13. Recognizes the important role of education, respect for cultural diversity, preventing and combating discrimination, employment and inclusion in helping to prevent terrorism and violent extremism conducive to terrorism, and welcomes the engagement of relevant United Nations agencies with Member States to implement strategies to prevent violent extremism conducive to terrorism through education; 14. Also recognizes the importance of preventing violent extremism conducive to terrorism, and invites Member States and regional and subregional organizations to consider developing national and regional plans of action in this regard; 2