A/HRC/10/58 page 18 issued by the International Criminal Court and by combating impunity domestically, inter alia through the adoption of legislation implementing the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and by giving positive injunction for priority to be given to the prosecution of alleged perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity regardless of their hierarchical rank; (b) (viii) Allocate adequate resources to the penitentiary system, inter alia to guarantee food and health care supplies and their equal distribution among prisoners and detainees and to enable prison officials to maintain rigorous records of the charges pending against individual detainees and the sentences to be carried out by prisoners; (ix) Clarify charges against persons held in pre-trial detention; release those who are detained solely for their opinions, for their belonging to opposition parties or for civil matters beyond the scope of national and international criminal law; provide expeditious judicial review for all others; (x) Encourage and enable public dialogue and scrutiny in order to ensure the sustainability and advancement of the democratic process; (xi) Increase efforts to combat sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, inter alia through the recently adopted Comprehensive Strategy to Combat Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The international community: (i) Strengthen its efforts to assist the Government o f the Democratic Republic of the Congo in carrying out comprehensive and sustainable reforms of the justice and security sectors, including through the implementation of a transitional justice strategy based on the recommendations of the OHCHR-led Mapping Exercise of human rights violations; (ii) Encourage and assist the Congolese authorities in controlling resources derived from the extractive industry and other business activities, inter alia by refraining from participation in the illegal exploitation of Congolese natural resources and by holding accountable state and non-state actors involved in such illegal exploitation and trade; (iii) Avoid implication in military operations likely to have a detrimental effect on the human rights situation in conflict zones, inter alia by encouraging a reorientation of peacekeeping activities towards the protection of the civilian population on the basis of lessons learnt from past atrocities;

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