A/HRC/RES/28/30 and access to justice, including through capacity-building in the justice system to enable effective accountability; 8. Urges the international community to support the Government and the Parliament of Libya to fully assume their responsibilities to promote and protect the human rights of the Libyan people; 9. Expresses grave concern at the rise in the number of conflict-related detainees, including children, and at reports of torture and sexual and gender-based violence in detention centres, calls upon the Government urgently to increase its efforts to establish full and effective control over all detention centres, in order to ensure that detainees, including foreign detainees, are treated in accordance with its international obligations, including, where applicable, those relating to fair trial guarantees and humane treatment in detention; 10. Welcomes the commitment of the Government of Libya to human rights and its continued cooperation with the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms, including the wish expressed by the Government to continue its cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and to renew its invitation for him to visit Libya, and urges the Government: (a) To take further steps to protect freedom of expression, ensuring that the media can operate freely and without discrimination, to review the provisions of the Penal Code and other provisions that violate freedom of expression, and to abolish all Penal Code restrictions on free speech that stipulate imprisonment and the death penalty for “insults” to officials, the judiciary and the State, for “slander” and for blasphemy; (b) To intensify efforts to prevent acts of torture, to investigate all allegations of torture, to hold those responsible to account and to consider providing fair and adequate compensation for victims; (c) To make further progress towards the ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; (d) To promote the continued operation of the National Council for Civil Liberties and Human Rights in conformity with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (Paris Principles); (e) review; To participate openly and constructively in its upcoming universal periodic (f) To further empower women and girls, including by ensuring their full representation in politics, the police and the judiciary; (g) To ensure the protection of cultural rights and freedom of religion and belief, in accordance with its international obligations, and to take appropriate steps to help to prevent all attacks on and destruction of cultural and religious sites in violation of international law, particularly those on the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and to prosecute those responsible for such attacks; (h) To take further steps to guarantee freedom of association and assembly, including by reviewing the articles of the Penal Code that undermine freedom of association and by adopting a law for civil society organizations that is in accordance with international standards on freedom of association, that ensures the protection of human rights defenders and that only includes legal limitations that comply with the international treaty obligations of Libya; 3