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and access to justice, including through capacity-building in the justice system to enable
effective accountability;
8.
Urges the international community to support the Government and the
Parliament of Libya to fully assume their responsibilities to promote and protect the human
rights of the Libyan people;
9.
Expresses grave concern at the rise in the number of conflict-related
detainees, including children, and at reports of torture and sexual and gender-based
violence in detention centres, calls upon the Government urgently to increase its efforts to
establish full and effective control over all detention centres, in order to ensure that
detainees, including foreign detainees, are treated in accordance with its international
obligations, including, where applicable, those relating to fair trial guarantees and humane
treatment in detention;
10.
Welcomes the commitment of the Government of Libya to human rights and
its continued cooperation with the Human Rights Council and its mechanisms, including
the wish expressed by the Government to continue its cooperation with the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights and to renew its invitation for him to visit Libya,
and urges the Government:
(a)
To take further steps to protect freedom of expression, ensuring that the
media can operate freely and without discrimination, to review the provisions of the Penal
Code and other provisions that violate freedom of expression, and to abolish all Penal Code
restrictions on free speech that stipulate imprisonment and the death penalty for “insults” to
officials, the judiciary and the State, for “slander” and for blasphemy;
(b)
To intensify efforts to prevent acts of torture, to investigate all allegations of
torture, to hold those responsible to account and to consider providing fair and adequate
compensation for victims;
(c)
To make further progress towards the ratification of the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment;
(d)
To promote the continued operation of the National Council for Civil
Liberties and Human Rights in conformity with the principles relating to the status of
national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (Paris Principles);
(e)
review;
To participate openly and constructively in its upcoming universal periodic
(f)
To further empower women and girls, including by ensuring their full
representation in politics, the police and the judiciary;
(g)
To ensure the protection of cultural rights and freedom of religion and belief,
in accordance with its international obligations, and to take appropriate steps to help to
prevent all attacks on and destruction of cultural and religious sites in violation of
international law, particularly those on the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and to prosecute those
responsible for such attacks;
(h)
To take further steps to guarantee freedom of association and assembly,
including by reviewing the articles of the Penal Code that undermine freedom of
association and by adopting a law for civil society organizations that is in accordance with
international standards on freedom of association, that ensures the protection of human
rights defenders and that only includes legal limitations that comply with the international
treaty obligations of Libya;
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