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;
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