A/HRC/RES/24/30 (n) To guarantee a minimum level of protection for children, and to implement the action plan to end the recruitment and use of children in the Somalia National Armed Forces; (o) To implement, in a clear and accessible manner, a zero-tolerance policy on gender-based violence, particularly sexual violence, and to include prevention of sexual exploitation and other forms of abuse; (p) To ensure that individuals found to be responsible for and complicit in sexual violence, regardless of their status or rank, are held to account; (q) To initiate effective and impartial investigations into the killings of journalists, to prosecute all those responsible in a manner consistent with applicable domestic and international legal obligations, and to create security and space for a free press to operate; (r) To treat disengaged combatants in accordance with applicable obligations under domestic and international law, in particular international human rights law; (s) To ensure the protection and well-being of all internally displaced persons, including from sexual violence and exploitation, paying particular attention to ensuring that the human rights of internally displaced persons in Mogadishu are respected in relation to relocations, and to ensure a fully consultative process, providing prior notice and ensuring safe, sanitary new sites that have basic services, as well as unfettered access for humanitarian organizations; (t) To facilitate full humanitarian access to people in need wherever they are in Somalia, and to safeguard the neutrality, impartiality and independence of humanitarian actors from political, economic and military interference, while paying particular attention to the rights, freedoms and needs of ethnic and religious minorities who require humanitarian assistance; 11. Strongly commends the engagement of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia and his latest report submitted to the Human Rights Council;1 12. Stresses the importance of technical assistance in building credible and impartial domestic capacity to undertake monitoring, investigations and public reporting to identify human rights concerns, inform appropriate remedies by duty-bearers and ascertain technical assistance needs; 13. Also stresses the important role of joint monitoring and reporting of the situation of human rights in Somalia by domestic and international experts, and the role that those monitoring human rights can play in evaluating and ensuring the success of technical assistance projects, which in turn must be for the benefit of all Somalis; 14. Underlines the importance of the realization by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia of its mandate throughout Somalia and the need to ensure synergy with the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights; 15. Decides to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, under agenda item 10, for a period of two years; 1 4 A/HRC/24/40.

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