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The independent expert recommends to the new Government that it should:
•
Take all necessary measures to affirm and consolidate the State’s authority over
the entire territory and foster rapprochement and a spirit of dialogue among the
political actors;
•
Implement national vetting procedures by suspending members of the FARDC
forces, the Congolese National Police (PNC) or the National Intelligence
Agency (ANR), allegedly responsible for human rights violations, so as to restore
confidence in the country’s institutions;
•
Provide all necessary support to the “Mapping Team”, in order to draw up an
objective cartography of the human rights violations committed between
March 1993 and June 2003;
•
Ensure effective application of the principle of clear separation between
intuitu personae and intuitu materiae areas of jurisdiction between civilian and
military courts;
•
Ensure the effective integration, reunification, reinforcement and equipment of
the army and police;
•
Improve the currently precarious and inadequate physical, intellectual and
equipment conditions of institutions and employees of the State, especially the
judiciary, so that it can respond effectively to the requirements of justice and the
fight against impunity;
•
Combat the trafficking and illegal exploitation of natural resources;
•
Combat all the crimes that continue to be committed, particularly sexual
violence against women and children;
•
Combat the continuing use of children for war; combat militias and privately
armed groups and prevent them from rearming;
•
Combat the impunity that serves to perpetuate violations of human rights and
international humanitarian law;
•
Work to enhance the status of women, protect them and help them to fulfil their
potential; promote the rights of the child.
The expert recommends to the newly elected Parliament that:
•
It adopt laws essential for the administration of justice and other areas of
national life, including:
(a)
Law on the organization and functioning of the Higher Council of the
Judiciary (Conseil supérieur de la magistrature);
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