A/HRC/28/49 To the Government of South Sudan 59. Immediately cease fighting and all forms of violence, and refrain from committing human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law, including those amounting to international crimes, such as extrajudicial killings, ethnically targeted violence, conflict-related sexual violence, including rape, as well as gender-based violence, recruitment and use of children, enforced disappearances and arbitrary arrests and detention. 60. Comply with all agreements signed under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), including the January 2014 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement and the Agreement to Resolve the Crisis in South Sudan (9 May 2014), and fully commit itself to the Addis Ababa negotiation process, including by allowing the deployment and strengthening of the IGAD Monitoring and Verification Mechanism across all conflict-affected areas. 61. Ensure prompt, credible, transparent, independent, impartial and comprehensive investigations into allegations of violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, including alleged international crimes committed in Juba in the initial stages of the conflict in mid-December 2013 and the April 2014 attacks on civilians in Bentiu and Bor. Ensure accountability for the perpetrators of such violations in accordance with international standards and provide adequate remedies and redress for the victims. 62. Cease activities impeding the right to freedom of expression, including the harassment and censorship of the media and civil society, the summoning and detention of journalists, and the issuing of orders to suspend publications or seize newspapers. To the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition and other armed actors 63. Immediately cease fighting and all forms of violence, and ensure that its forces do not commit human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, including those amounting to international crimes, such as extrajudicial killings, ethnically targeted violence, conflict-related sexual violence, including rape, as well as gender-based violence, recruitment and use of children, enforced disappearances and arbitrary arrests and detention. 64. Comply with all agreements signed under the auspices of IGAD, including the January 2014 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement and the Agreement to Resolve the Crisis in South Sudan (9 May 2014), and fully commit themselves to the Addis Ababa negotiation process, including by allowing the deployment and strengthening of the IGAD Monitoring and Verification Mechanism in areas under their control. 65. Commit themselves to abiding by international humanitarian law, including desisting from attacks on civilians, civilian objects and humanitarian facilities, ceasing indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks and ensuring the facilitation of humanitarian access to territories under their control. 66. Facilitate the conduct of prompt investigations into allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights violations and abuses committed by commanders, fighters and affiliated militia forces, including the unlawful killings of civilians in Bentiu in mid-April 2014. 14

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