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(o)
To continue measures to implement the plans of action to prevent the
unlawful recruitment and use of children in the Somalia national armed forces, and to work
with specialist agencies, such as the United Nations Children’s Fund, to ensure that former
child soldiers and children under 18 years of age used in armed conflict are treated as
victims and rehabilitated in accordance with international standards;
(p)
To implement the Declaration on Durable Solutions for Somali Refugees and
the Reintegration of Returnees in Somalia, adopted in Nairobi on 25 March 2017, to
promote the well-being and protection of all internally displaced persons, including from
sexual and gender-based violence, and also from exploitation and abuse committed by State
or international military or civilian personnel, to facilitate the voluntary reintegration or
return of all internally displaced persons, including the most vulnerable, in safety and with
dignity, to ensure a fully consultative process and best practice for relocations, to provide
safe sites that provide safe access to essential food and potable water, basic shelter and
housing, appropriate clothing and essential medical services and sanitation, to ensure
unhindered access for humanitarian organizations, to recognize the acute vulnerability of
internally displaced persons, to facilitate full, rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access to
people in need, wherever they are in Somalia, and to safeguard the neutrality, impartiality
and independence of humanitarian actors from political, economic and military interference,
while remaining sensitive to the needs of persons belonging to ethnic minorities requiring
humanitarian assistance;
9.
Stresses the important role of joint monitoring and reporting on the situation
of human rights in Somalia by domestic and international experts and the Federal
Government of Somalia, and the vital role that those monitoring human rights can play in
evaluating and ensuring the success of technical assistance projects, which in turn must be
for the benefit of all Somalis;
10.
Underlines the importance of the realization by the United Nations
Assistance Mission in Somalia of its mandate throughout Somalia and the need to ensure
synergy with the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights;
11.
Commends the engagement of the Independent Expert on the situation of
human rights in Somalia;
12.
Decides to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert, under agenda item
10, for a period of one year, to assess, monitor and report on the situation of human rights
in Somalia with a view to making recommendations on technical assistance and capacitybuilding in the field of human rights;
13.
Requests the Independent Expert to continue to work closely with the Federal
Government of Somalia at the national and subnational levels, all United Nations bodies,
including the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, the African Union, the
Intergovernmental Authority on Development, other relevant international organizations,
civil society and all relevant human rights mechanisms, and to assist Somalia in the
implementation of:
(a)
Its domestic and international human rights obligations;
(b)
Human Rights Council resolutions and other human rights instruments,
including associated routine reporting;
(c)
Recommendations accepted during the universal periodic review;
(d)
Other human rights commitments, policies and legislation to promote the
empowerment of women, young people and marginalized groups, freedom of expression
and assembly, the protection of the media, access to justice for women, and increasing the
capacity of ministries and institutions responsible for the administration of justice and the
protection of human rights;
14.
Also requests the Independent Expert to report to the Human Rights Council
at its thirty-ninth session and to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session;
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