A/HRC/RES/42/33 8. Further recognizes the efforts of Somalia, despite its own struggles, to accept and not turn its back on refugees from other countries in the region; 9. Calls upon the Federal Government of Somalia, with the support of the international community: (a) To make urgent progress towards settling outstanding constitutional issues and completing the constitutional review process in an inclusive manner that promotes the building of peace and the rule of law, protects the freedoms of expression and association, and includes targeted provisions that enable and facilitate the advancement of women, children, young persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and all members of disadvantaged groups in the areas of access to justice, education, health, water, security and economic recovery, including representation and the right to participate in the 2020 and 2021 elections; (b) To expedite the establishment of a national human rights commission, providing it with adequate resources, to monitor and provide accountability for violations and abuses, including a recruitment process that guarantees the representation of women, marginalized groups and persons with disabilities; (c) To accelerate the Government-led inclusive political settlement by reengaging in regular high-level dialogue between the Federal Government and the federal Member States with Parliament; (d) To make efforts to finalize the electoral law, and underscores the importance of progress on key priorities, including power- and resource-sharing, the constitutional review, fiscal federalism and the development and implementation of a legal framework for the elections, all of which require political agreements that can form the basis for legislation in the Federal Parliament; (e) To continue its cooperation with the Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral for Somalia; (f) To secure constitutional provisions for the equal representation, participation and inclusion of women, particularly in leadership and decision-making roles in public and elected offices and the civil service through the constitutional review and other ongoing political and legislative processes; (g) To adopt the Electoral Law and the amendments to legislation on political parties before the 2020 and 2021 elections, and to ensure that these and other measures promote the inclusivity of elections, particularly by ensuring the equal participation and representation of women in decision-making and in leadership positions, as well as of internally displaced persons, young persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and all members of disadvantaged groups at all stages of the electoral cycle; (h) To realize commitments to security sector reform, including by ensuring the active participation of women in the implementation of the national security architecture, to ensure that Somali security forces and institutions comply with applicable national and international law, together with international human rights law, including on the protection of individuals from, inter alia, sexual and gender-based violence, and on the prevention of extrajudicial killings, and the strengthening of internal and external accountability of all relevant security forces and institutions; (i) To continue measures to implement the plans of action to prevent the unlawful recruitment and use of children in the national armed forces, and to work with specialized 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; (j) To realize commitments to ending the prevailing culture of impunity, to hold accountable those who commit human rights violations and abuses, ensuring prompt, independent, impartial, thorough and effective investigations into human rights violations by urgently concluding the establishment of a resourced and independent national human rights commission and by reforming State and traditional justice mechanisms to increase the representation of women in the judiciary, and to improve access to justice for women and children; 4

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