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B.
Recommendations
102.
The Independent Expert recommends that the Ivorian authorities should:
(a)
Ensure an impartial and fair justice system that will contribute to
reconciliation and lasting peace in the country;
(b)
Bring detainees to trial within a reasonable time limit and to
provisionally release those who should not be detained pending trial;
(c)
Strengthen efforts to combat impunity by prohibiting amnesties for
serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, including
sexual violence;
(d)
Adopt an implementing decree for Act No. 2014-388 of 20 June 2014 on
the promotion and protection of human rights defenders and set up a monitoring
mechanism for the effective implementation of the Act;
(e)
Ratify the second optional protocol to the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights in order to complete the ongoing process to abolish the death
penalty;
(f)
Make the necessary amendments to Act No. 2012-1132 of 13 December
2012 on the establishment, powers, organization and functioning of the National
Human Rights Commission in order to improve its compliance with the Paris
Principles, in particular, its independence from the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights
and Public Freedoms and its financial autonomy;
(g)
Strengthen social policy in order to allow the benefits of economic
growth to be fairly distributed among all sectors of the Ivorian population;
(h)
Improve detention conditions in prisons and facilitate access of
humanitarian and human rights organizations to persons detained by the National
Surveillance Directorate;
(i)
Accelerate the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former
FRCI combatants and reforms within the security sector;
(j)
Issue clear orders, through chains of command and codes of conduct,
prohibiting violence against civilians by members of the security forces.
103. The Independent Expert recommends that the international community
should:
(a)
Provide financial support and technical assistance for the Government’s
capacity-building efforts in the judicial system with a view to combating, in an
impartial way, impunity for crimes committed since the beginning of the crisis in Côte
d’Ivoire;
(b)
Provide financial and technical support for the victims’ reparation fund
established by the Ivorian authorities;
(c)
Provide Côte d’Ivoire with guidance in the organization of free and
transparent elections and assist in its efforts to reform, reconstruct and develop the
country.
104. The Independent Expert recommends that the United Nations should maintain
the UNOCI mission until the achievements of Côte d’Ivoire in terms of security and
progress towards greater respect for human rights are properly consolidated.
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