A/HRC/RES/43/2 and prosecution of, human rights violations and abuses committed since 2018; measures that ensure access to justice, truth, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence; participative and inclusive consultations to reform the judicial sector; and comprehensive reform of the security sector, including the dismantlement and disarmament of armed groups; 8. Calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to resume its cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms, and the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, including by granting unfettered access throughout the country and facilitating visits, and to positively consider the recommendations made in their reports and offers of technical assistance, and to strengthen its cooperation with relevant treaty bodies; 9. Also calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to prevent, refrain from and publicly condemn, investigate and punish any acts of intimidation or reprisal, including against those who cooperate or seek to cooperate with international and regional bodies, in particular the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights, or with the Organization of American States or the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; 10. Further calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to ensure a wide, credible, representative, inclusive and transparent national dialogue with the participation of all parties, and urges the Government to implement fully the agreements reached with the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy in March 2019, and in this regard requests the international community to support those efforts; 11. Urges the Government of Nicaragua and relevant electoral institutions to undertake and implement legal and institutional reforms to ensure free, fair, transparent and credible elections, in accordance with international standards, that include the presence of independent national and international electoral observers; 12. Encourages continued and strengthened cooperation between the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights in Nicaragua; 13. Requests the High Commissioner to enhance monitoring by the Office of the High Commissioner and to continue to report on the situation of human rights in Nicaragua, including by preparing a comprehensive written report that assesses progress and challenges regarding that situation, and to present it to the Human Rights Council at its forty-sixth session, to be followed by an interactive dialogue, and to present an oral update on the situation of human rights to the Council at its forty-fourth and forty-fifth sessions. 44th meeting 19 June 2020 [Adopted by a recorded vote of 24 to 4, with 19 abstentions. The voting was as follows: In favour: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Czechia, Denmark, Fiji, Germany, Italy, Japan, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay Against: Eritrea, Philippines, Somalia, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Abstaining: Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Indonesia, Libya, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Senegal, Sudan, Togo] 3

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