A/HRC/RES/42/36 16. Calls upon the authorities of the Central African Republic to ensure respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the entire population and to take all necessary steps to end the impunity of perpetrators of acts of violence by strengthening the judicial system and mechanisms intended to ensure accountability; 17. Notes the decision of the Central African authorities in June 2014 to request the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into alleged crimes committed in the Central African Republic that may fall under the Court’s jurisdiction, and welcomes in that regard the Court’s decision of September 2014 to open an investigation focusing principally on war crimes and crimes against humanity committed since 1 August 2012; 18. Welcomes the efforts of the Central African authorities to establish within the national judicial system the Special Criminal Court with competence in respect of serious violations of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law, and encourages the Government to take all the measures necessary to ensure the effective implementation and full operational capability of the Court and the opening of proceedings as soon as possible, with support from the international community, and to cooperate with the Special Prosecutor of the Court so that those responsible for international crimes, regardless of their status or their affiliation, are identified, arrested and brought to justice without delay; 19. Notes the efforts made by the authorities of the Central African Republic and underscores the urgent need to effectively redeploy judges throughout the country, to revitalize the judicial services, to implement the national strategy for the protection of victims and witnesses involved in judicial proceedings, and to establish appropriate reparation programmes to provide victims of violations and their families with material and symbolic reparation, at both the individual and collective level; 20. Welcomes the efforts made by the authorities of the Central African Republic to hold criminal hearings in the Assize Court and to strengthen the capacities of local peace and reconciliation committees, requests them to continue strengthening the judiciary and combating impunity in order to contribute to stabilization and reconciliation, and stresses the urgent need to restore the administration of justice and strengthen the criminal justice system and the prison system such that judicial authorities are effectively present throughout the country, while ensuring that everyone has access to fair and impartial justice; 21. Notes the efforts of the authorities of the Central African Republic to reestablish the effective authority of the State over the entire country, by pursuing the fight against corruption and redeploying the State administration, in particular the judiciary, in the provinces with a view to ensuring stable, responsible, inclusive and transparent governance, and requests the authorities to support those efforts by ensuring that the redeployed authorities have sufficient resources; 22. Welcomes the recent efforts of the authorities of the Central African Republic to launch the special joint security units, in accordance with the agreement of 6 February 2019, and encourages them to fully implement the reform of the security sector in order to establish multi-ethnic, professional, representative and well-equipped national defence and internal security forces, and stresses the need for these forces to respect the principles of accountability and the rule of law so as to win and nurture the trust of local communities, including the preliminary verification procedures relating to human rights conducted by the defence and security forces; 23. Welcomes the good cooperation between the authorities of the Central African Republic and international partners, including the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic and the European Union military training mission in the Central African Republic, with a view to the gradual and sustainable redeployment of the Central African armed forces and the internal security forces trained by the European Union military training mission in the Central African Republic and other international partners, in the wider context of extending the authority of the State and consolidating security, and invites the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic to continue to apply a 6 GE.19-16926