A/RES/56/175 (p) To ensure full respect for the freedom of expression, opinion, thought, conscience and religion, as well as the freedom of association and assembly, throughout the territory of the Sudan; (q) To continue to implement fully its commitment to the democratization process and the rule of law and to create, in this context, conditions that would allow for a democratization process that is genuine and that wholly reflects the aspirations of the people of the country and ensures their full participation; (r) To make further efforts to implement the commitment made to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict not to recruit children under the age of eighteen as soldiers; (s) To make further efforts to address effectively the problem of internally displaced persons, including ensuring their access to effective protection and assistance; (t) To consider the establishment of an independent national institution on human rights; 5. Encourages: (a) The Government of the Sudan to continue its cooperation with the United Nations in the field of human rights through the Special Rapporteur and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and its expert in Khartoum entrusted with the task of advising the Government on the development of national capacity to promote and protect human rights, and to consider how to strengthen the role of the Office; (b) The Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement to allow the people-topeople peace process to develop freely and unhindered, and to consider it an important contribution to the peace process; 6. Calls upon the international community to expand its support for activities aimed at improving respect for human rights and humanitarian law, in particular those of the Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children, and to consider how to expand the Office of the High Commissioner to include a monitoring role; 7. Decides to continue its consideration of the situation of human rights in the Sudan at its fifty-seventh session, under the item entitled “Human rights questions”, in the light of further elements provided by the Commission on Human Rights. 88th plenary meeting 19 December 2001 8