A/HRC/RES/42/36 Welcoming the outcome of the international support conference held in Brussels in November 2016 and the pledges announced during that conference, and encouraging Member States to swiftly disburse those pledges, Deeply concerned at the violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, including those involving summary executions, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detention, enforced disappearance, the recruitment and use of children, the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries, rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture, looting, the unlawful destruction of property and other serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law and abuses of human rights, Deeply concerned also at the number of grave violations committed against children, including the escalating killing and maiming of children and attacks on schools and hospitals perpetrated by armed groups, as well as abductions attributed to the exSéléka, Emphasizing that those who engage in or provide support for acts that undermine the peace, stability and security of the Central African Republic, threaten or impede the political stabilization and reconciliation process, target civilians and attack peacekeepers and incite others to violence, particularly on ethnic or religious grounds, must be held responsible for their acts, Welcoming the efforts of the African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic, the African Union, the Operation Sangaris mission conducted by France, the European Union military operation in the Central African Republic, the European Union Military Advisory Mission in the Central African Republic, the nonoperational and operational military training missions for the Central African armed forces conducted by the European Union and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, Recalling that the international forces present in the Central African Republic must act, in carrying out their duties, in full respect for the applicable provisions of international law, particularly international humanitarian law, international human rights law and international refugee law, expressing its concern at the allegations of sexual abuse and other human rights violations that may have been committed by personnel of the international forces in the Central African Republic, recalling that an in-depth investigation should be launched into these allegations and that those responsible for such acts must be brought to justice, and welcoming the commitment by the Secretary-General to strictly enforce the zero-tolerance policy of the United Nations on sexual exploitation and abuse, and the signing on 3 September 2018 of the protocol on information-sharing and reporting of sexual exploitation and abuse, Stressing the urgent and imperative need to end impunity in the Central African Republic, to bring to justice the perpetrators of human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law and to reject any general amnesty for the perpetrators of such violations and abuses, and the need to bolster national judicial mechanisms to ensure the accountability of perpetrators, Stressing also the primary responsibility of the national authorities to create the conditions necessary to carry out investigations, to prosecute and to render judgments efficiently and independently, and to protect victims and at-risk persons against reprisals of any form, and calling on international partners, including the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic, the European Union military training mission in the Central African Republic, within their respective mandates, to support the Central African authorities to this end, Welcoming the commitment of the authorities of the Central African Republic to restore the rule of law, to end impunity and to bring to justice the perpetrators of crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, to which the Central African Republic is a party, and noting the decisions of the Prosecutor of the Court, made on 7 February 2014, to conduct a preliminary examination of the situation in the Central African GE.19-16926 3