A/HRC/RES/40/19 upon the Government of South Sudan to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms; 4. Notes with appreciation the report of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan,1 and the recommendations contained therein; 5. Recognizes the important role and efforts of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development in bringing parties together to work towards a peaceful resolution to the conflict, supporting the inclusion of civil society, women and youth in the negotiations and securing the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan; 6. Also recognizes the important role of the reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission and the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and Verification Mechanism in supporting the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement and its ceasefire provisions, and urges all parties and international partners to engage constructively with all the bodies created pursuant to the Revitalized Agreement; 7. Further recognizes the importance of an inclusive process for national dialogue and the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement, and urges all parties and international partners to engage constructively with the African Union Commission, the African Union High Representative for South Sudan and the bodies created pursuant to the Revitalized Agreement; 8. Urges the Government of South Sudan to strengthen efforts to protect and promote the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association in accordance with its international human rights obligations and, inter alia, to ensure that members of civil society organizations and the media can operate freely and without intimidation; 9. Strongly urges all parties to end and prevent violations and abuses of human rights committed against children, and calls upon all parties to end immediately the unlawful recruitment and use of children by armed groups and to release all children that have been unlawfully recruited to date; 10. Recognizes the important role that women play in building peace, and calls for the protection and promotion of the rights of women and their empowerment and participation in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, post-conflict processes and humanitarian responses, in accordance with Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 and subsequent resolutions on women, peace and security, including Council resolution 2242 (2015) of 13 October 2015; 11. Emphasizes the need for the Government of South Sudan to ensure the effective and meaningful participation of women during all stages and in all structures envisaged in the Revitalized Agreement, and for all parties to the Agreement to meet their commitments regarding women’s representation and to have regard to the need to ensure balance in the representation of youth, gender and national and regional diversity in their appointments; 12. Supports the establishment of transitional justice institutions, and calls upon all parties to cooperate fully in the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement, including the establishment of the commission for truth, reconciliation and healing, the hybrid court for South Sudan and the compensation and reparation authority, as outlined in its chapter V; 13. Notes with appreciation that the Government of South Sudan has cooperated with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council and the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan in the fulfilment of its mandate, including by authorizing travel to and within the country and providing meetings and relevant information, and calls upon the Government to cooperate fully and constructively with and to provide unhindered access to them, as well as to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, and regional, subregional and international mechanisms on the ground; 4