A/72/53/Add.1 (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; GE.17-18194 75

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