1.2.9 Ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. 1.3 Children and armed conflict 1.3.1 Establish and provide sufficient resources to Gender and Child Units within the national police in Darfur as a matter of priority. 1.3.2 Undertake timely adoption of national legislation for the protection of children, and ensure the implementation of this legislation. TIME FRAME Mid-term Ensure that DDR Commissions have adequate child protection expertise, and ensure effective communication with relevant line ministries such as the Ministry of Social Welfare, Women and Children’s Affairs. The National DDR Coordination Council should facilitate the inclusion of all relevant stakeholders. CEDAW and Protocol ratified. Short-term Gender and Child Units within the national police established and fully resourced. Mid-term Adoption of national legislation for the protection of children. Number of cases of violations against children investigated and prosecuted. Ensure the rigorous and systematic investigation and prosecution of violations against children to address the prevailing sense of impunity for such violations. 1.3.3 INDICATOR Mid-term Adequate child protection expertise within the DDR Commissions. 1.4 Protection against summary executions, arbitrary detention, disappearances, torture Short-term Instructions issued and widely disseminated. 1.4.1 Issue and enforce clear instructions to the law enforcement agencies, the armed forces and any militias under the Government’s control that summary executions, arbitrary detention, enforced or NEEDS OF SUDAN: See Annex II A/HRC/5/6 page 16 RECOMMENDATION