A/HRC/10/18 page 22 (viii) 81. Act against the impunity of those responsible for violence and violations by permitting means of effective redress at the national and local levels; (ix) Engage with the Human Rights Council and its universal periodic review to ensure transparency and reforms, and request technical assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to help promote and protect human rights comprehensively; (x) Initiate constructive dialogue with the treaty bodies that monitor the conventions to which the country is a party, and cooperate with all United Nations mechanisms, including the special procedures, to ensure effective follow-up of their recommendations and access to the country. The Special Rapporteur invites the international community: (a) To emphasize the need for an integrated approach that includes the prevention of violations, effective protection of human rights, the provision of care and assistance in an accessible and accountable manner, participation of people in the enjoyment of their rights and freedoms and ensuring the country’s development in a democratic setting; (b) To advocate for the need for a “people first” rather than the current “military first” policy, complemented by an equitable development process, food aid and food security, with due respect for the principle of “no access, no food”, coupled with adequate monitoring; (c) To respect the rights of refugees, particularly the principle of non-refoulement, and the human rights of migrants, and to mitigate the strictures of national immigration laws that might otherwise lead to the detention or forced return of refugees or asylum-seekers; (d) To maximize dialogue with the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to enlarge the space for human rights discourse and action, offering relevant incentives and graduated measures, and to use the State’s refusal to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur as a key indicator or benchmark for the forthcoming universal periodic review of its human rights record; (e) To address impunity from different viewpoints, whether in terms of State responsibility and/or individual criminal responsibility, and enable the totality of the United Nations system, especially the Security Council, to take measures to prevent egregious violations, protect people from victimization and provide them with effective redress, with due regard for the call for broad-based participation of people in governance and government.

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