A/HRC/RES/42/17 employees and officials, memorialization initiatives, and processes to achieve shared narratives or an appropriately conceived combination thereof, in order to, inter alia, ensure accountability, serve justice, provide remedies to victims, promote healing and reconciliation, establish independent oversight of the security system, restore confidence in the institutions of the State and promote the rule of law in accordance with international human rights law and international humanitarian law, Recognizing the importance of assisting States that have undergone past atrocities, upon their request and in cooperation with them, in devising national comprehensive transitional justice strategies with a view to addressing the needs of victims and their right to an effective remedy, to preventing the recurrence of past atrocities or similar violations, to avoiding relapsing into conflict or other forms of violence and to ensuring sustainable peace and reconciliation, acknowledging that the implementation of such a strategy can contribute to both peacebuilding and development efforts, and encouraging the international community to support such processes in a more sustainable manner, Welcoming the activities of the United Nations, including through its field presences, in assisting States to design, establish and implement transitional justice mechanisms and to promote the rule of law, and encouraging further efforts to ensure that a gender perspective and an approach that is victim-centred and addresses the root causes are fully integrated into all of these activities, Welcoming also the role of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in relation to transitional justice and human rights, including its conceptual and analytical work, and the increased efforts of the United Nations system for joint planning and implementation across the pillars of the United Nations, Welcoming further the role of the Peacebuilding Commission and its consistent efforts, in cooperation with national and transitional Governments and in consultation with relevant United Nations entities, to incorporate human rights when advising on and supporting country-specific peacebuilding strategies for post-conflict situations in cases under consideration, where applicable, Welcoming the investment of the Peacebuilding Fund in projects addressing critical gaps in sustaining peace, Recognizing the role of the International Criminal Court in a multilateral system that aims to end impunity, establish the rule of law, promote and encourage respect for human rights and international humanitarian law and achieve sustainable peace, in accordance with international law and the purposes and principles of the Charter, Recognizing also the importance of documenting gross human rights violations and abuses and serious violations of international humanitarian law for the purpose of accountability, the fight against impunity and as a contribution to transitional justice processes, and welcoming the efforts of the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms in this regard, Taking note with appreciation of the work and reports of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence,10 Reaffirming the important role of women in peacebuilding, and noting the substantial link between women’s full and meaningful involvement in efforts to prevent, resolve and rebuild from conflict and the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of those efforts, and stressing in this regard the importance of women’s equal participation in all these efforts and the need to increase women’s role in decision-making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution and peacebuilding, Recognizing the fundamental role of civil society, through its engagement, advocacy and participation in decision-making processes, in preventing gross violations and abuses of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law, including genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity from being committed, or in addressing their legacy by promoting the right to the truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, 10 A/HRC/39/53, A/HRC/42/45, A/72/523 and A/73/336. 3