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Respect for international humanitarian law
(g)
The Council should promote and monitor the obligation to “respect and
ensure respect” of the international humanitarian law by all parties in a conflict, including
non-State actors;
(h)
In order to establish responsibility for human rights violations, some aspects
of the conduct of IDF need more legal inquiry, with full cooperation from both victims and
the perpetrator;
(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 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;
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