A/HRC/30/48 address the need for accountability, including access to justice at the national and local levels; (b) Respect civilians’ right of access to basic necessities, including shelter, food, water and medical care, and allow unhindered passage of humanitarian aid; (c) Distinguish military from civilian objectives, refraining from all indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks; (d) Prohibit and prevent absolutely torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, including sexual violence; (e) Ban effectively the recruitment and use of children in hostilities; (f) Treat all persons who are deprived of liberty, including detainees, humanely and enable them to access help; (g) Allow access for an independent humanitarian assessment of besieged areas and communities; (h) Protect humanitarian workers, including medical personnel, facilitate the rapid and unimpeded passage of relief supplies, and safeguard the sanctity of hospitals and medical transport; (i) Assist and protect the full range of displaced persons, with due regard to sex and age; (j) Uphold the mosaic of religious and ethnically diverse communities, and guarantee the space for a variety of human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, academics and civil society; (k) weapons. Prohibit and prevent the use of illegal weapons, including chemical 179. The Commission recommends that the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic: (a) Cease using illegal weaponry, such as incendiary weapons and other weapons such as barrel bombs, employed indiscriminately on civilian-inhabited areas; (b) Allow the Commission access to the country. 180. The Commission recommends that anti-Government armed groups repudiate extreme elements and apply effective leverage for compliance with international law. 181. The Commission recommends that countries with influence over the warring parties, in particular the permanent members of the Security Council, work in concert to put pressure on the parties to end the violence and to initiate all-inclusive negotiations for a sustainable political transition process in the country. 182. The Commission further recommends that the international community: (a) thereof; Curb the proliferation and supply of weapons, and address the sources (b) Sustain and expand funding and other supports for humanitarian operations; (c) Protect the human rights of all persons, including migrants, internally displaced persons, asylum-seekers and refugees, which are part of customary international law, as well as comply with obligations under international human rights treaties, the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, 22

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