(b)
To cooperate with the Working Group and help it to carry out its
mandate effectively and, in that framework, give serious consideration to requests for
visits to their countries;
(c)
To prevent the occurrence of enforced disappearances, including by
guaranteeing that any person deprived of liberty is held solely in officially recognized
and supervised places of detention, guaranteeing access to all places of detention by
authorities and institutions whose competence in this regard has been recognized by
the concerned State, maintaining official, accessible, up-to-date registers and/or
records of detainees, and ensuring that detainees are brought before a judicial
authority promptly after detention;
(d)
To work to eradicate the culture of impunity for the perpetrators of
enforced disappearances and to elucidate cases of enforced disappearances as crucial
steps in effective prevention;
(e)
To prevent and investigate with special attention cases of enforced
disappearance of persons belonging to vulnerable groups, especially children, and to
bring the perpetrators of these enforced disappearances to justice;
(f)
To take steps to provide adequate protection to witnesses of enforced
or involuntary disappearances, human rights defenders acting against enforced
disappearances and the lawyers and families of disappeared persons against any
intimidation or ill-treatment to which they might be subjected;
5.
Urges the Governments concerned:
(a)
To intensify their cooperation with the Working Group on any action
taken pursuant to recommendations addressed to them by the Working Group;
(b)
To continue their efforts to elucidate the fate of disappeared persons
and to ensure that competent authorities in charge of investigation and prosecution are
provided with adequate means and resources to resolve cases and bring perpetrators to
justice;
(c)
To make provisions in their legal systems for victims of enforced or
involuntary disappearances or their families to seek fair, prompt and adequate
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