A/HRC/39/63 (xi) Strengthening victim and witness protection mechanisms and improving their effectiveness in order to restore public trust and encourage witnesses to come forward without fear for their safety; (g) In consultation with the beneficiaries, establish a reparations programme for victims of human rights violations, ensuring that material, symbolic, individual and collective reparations are made available regardless of whether or not the perpetrators are convicted; (h) Establish the State fund for victims of torture provided for by law, in conformity with general comment No. 4 on the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, concerning the right to redress for victims of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment (art. 5); (i) detention; Establish a compensation fund for victims of arbitrary and unlawful (j) Reform the security sector by: (i) Ensuring that outsiders are not involved in defence or security activities; (ii) Clearly defining the roles of the various defence and security forces, in particular the National Intelligence Service; (iii) Suspending members of the defence and security forces who are suspected of involvement in human rights violations until the relevant investigations and judicial proceedings have concluded; (iv) Establishing rigorous and transparent selection procedures that include vetting mechanisms; (v) Strengthening democratic civilian control over the defence and security forces, in particular the National Intelligence Service; (k) Meet its international obligations to respect, protect and fulfil economic and social rights by: (i) Developing and implementing State budgets in such a way as to maximize the use of available resources to ensure that the human rights of the sectors impoverished by the political crisis are respected, in particular the rights to food, water and health care, and to develop indicators disaggregated by factors such as gender in order to better inform its policies; (ii) In consultation with population groups working in the agricultural sector, including women, undertaking reforms with the aim of better protecting women’s rights and making better use of land for agriculture, and developing employment opportunities outside the agricultural sector; (iii) Taking a rights-based approach to the settlement of land conflicts, including those involving persons who fled Burundi either before or after 2015; (iv) Ending the inclusion of any political considerations in hiring processes for the civil service, State enterprises and public-private enterprises. 87. The Commission recommends that political parties and armed opposition groups refrain from engaging in any attacks on Burundian territory and from any speech calling for violence, and that they join the effort to find a lasting solution to the political crisis. 88. The Commission recommends that the African Union, in its efforts to find a lasting solution to the crisis in Burundi, give priority to respect for human rights and the rejection of impunity, as provided for in its Constitutive Act. GE.18-13070 19