A/HRC/30/60 A. Government of the Sudan 74. The Independent Expert calls upon the Government of the Sudan: (a) To acknowledge the persistence of human rights violations and abuses in the country; (b) To continue and deepen its efforts to combat impunity by prosecuting all perpetrators of human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in the country; (c) To prevent interference by security forces in the activities of civil society and to provide the National Commission for Human Rights with the human and financial resources necessary to fulfil its mandate, to ensure its independence in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles), and to continue to facilitate the establishment of its branch offices beyond Khartoum and Darfur; (d) To conduct an inclusive and transparent national dialogue, as initiated by the Government in January 2014, and to ensure the participation of all stakeholders, including regional observers, with a view to advancing peace and reconciliation in the country; (e) As the national dialogue evolves, to explore the organization of a donors conference to support concrete proposals for technical cooperation and capacitybuilding in the area of human rights in the Sudan; (f) To implement the recommendations of the previous mandate holder without further delay, including: (i) To institute an independent judicial public enquiry into the killings of civilians and other human rights violations during the demonstrations of September 2013; (ii) To ensure that its security agents desist from arbitrary arrest and detention, press censorship, clamping down on civil society organizations, and to respect fully the right to liberty and freedom of individuals; (iii) To put an end to indiscriminate aerial strikes and to respect the principle of proportionality in its armed response to attacks by armed movements; (iv) To respond formally to communications received under the special procedures system in a timely manner; (g) To call a moratorium on the use of the death penalty and to review routine recourse to lashing, and to ensure that the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is upheld; (h) To ensure that all discrimination against and assaults on the human dignity of the Darfuri on the basis of ethnic and tribal affiliation cease; (i) To challenge the culture of silence and denial surrounding sexual and gender-based violence; (j) To review article 152 of the Sudanese Criminal Code (1991) on “indecent dress”, to ensure that the offence of modesty and the penalty of flogging do not perpetuate violence against women, and to ensure equality in the enjoyment of civil and political rights; 15