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95.
The expert also recommends that once it has finished its work, the Dialogue,
Truth and Reconciliation Commission prepare and publish a white paper on human
rights violations during the period 2002–2011 and on the identification of places that
symbolize these violations for all the Ivorian people.
96.
In combating impunity the justice system will need to balance the need to
punish with the promotion of national reconciliation by impartially and systematically
prosecuting all those who committed serious human rights violations between 2002
and 2011.
97.
The independent expert recommends that the Government provide the
judiciary with the necessary human and material resources, and that it relieve the
detention system by freeing those who have committed minor crimes and bringing the
remaining prisoners to justice swiftly with due respect for recognized judicial
safeguards.
98.
The expert recommends that civil and political rights be harmonized with
economic, social and cultural rights. In this connection the Government must make
every effort to promote the country’s economic development and the collective
prosperity of the Ivorian people, respecting the equality between regions and
communities, including by implementing a socio-economic development and recovery
plan for young people and women by establishing a dedicated cross-cutting
government entity.
99.
The Government should develop a nationwide rural land policy in consultation
and cooperation with the concerned communities in order to gain a clear picture of
the issue of land and its prosperity, break the link between land and ethnicity and
foster cooperation and complementarity in land use for shared prosperity.
100. The implementation of a broad programme to educate people about human
rights and their importance, including (a) the active promotion of the traditional
values, practices and mechanisms of all the communities in order to foster coexistence
and mutual respect; (b) the promotion, throughout the educational system, of a
culture of peace, diversity and pluralism; and (c) the delivery of human rights
education to all members of the security forces.
101. The expert encourages the Government to promote international regional and
subregional cooperation, particularly in the spirit of the joint council of ministers of
Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso.
102. The expert also recommends that the Ivorian people’s rich cultural and artistic
creativity, in particular that of the country’s youth, be encouraged not only to express
feelings and emotions curbed and stifled by years of crisis but also the positive values
of pluralism and coexistence.
2.
Recommendations to the international community
103. The international community must increase its involvement in Côte d’Ivoire by
(a) steadfastly supporting the ongoing democratic process, in particular the
strengthening of political pluralism; (b) providing assistance to the Dialogue, Truth
and Reconciliation Commission; (c) strengthening the judiciary and the security
apparatus; (d) supporting the promotion of human rights, particularly through
education and material support to human rights defence organizations; and (e)
strengthening UNOCI, particularly its Human Rights Division.
104. The expert calls on all international and regional financial institutions and
bilateral partners to contribute through active cooperation to the economic recovery
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