A/RES/56/175 (i) To grant full, safe and unhindered access to all international agencies and humanitarian organizations in order to facilitate by all possible means the delivery of humanitarian assistance, in conformity with international humanitarian law, to all civilians in need of protection and assistance, in particular in the Nuba Mountains, the Western Upper Nile, Blue Nile State, Bahr-el-Ghazal and other areas in need throughout the country, to continue to cooperate with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat and Operation Lifeline Sudan to deliver such assistance, to take measures against those who are responsible for abductions of United Nations and humanitarian staff, urges in particular the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/ Movement to lift as soon as possible the conditions it has imposed on the work of international agencies and humanitarian organizations, and also urges in particular the Government of the Sudan to end the use of the denial of humanitarian assistance flights for political purposes; (j) Not to use or recruit children under the age of eighteen as soldiers, encourages the continuation of the process of demobilization of child soldiers currently being undertaken by the United Nations Children’s Fund, with the cooperation of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement, and urges both parties to the conflict not to use or recruit children under the age of eighteen as soldiers and to refrain from the practice of forced conscription; (k) To fulfil their commitments concerning the protection of children affected by the conflict, such as to cease the use of anti-personnel landmines and attacks on sites where there is usually a significant presence of children as well as the abduction and exploitation of children and the recruitment of children as soldiers, to advance the demobilization and reintegration of child soldiers and to ensure access to displaced and unaccompanied minors and reunify them with their families; (l) To allow an independent investigation of the case of the four Sudanese nationals who were abducted on 18 February 1999, while travelling with a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross on a humanitarian mission and subsequently killed while in custody of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement, and urges the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement to return the bodies to their families; 4. Calls upon the Government of the Sudan: (a) To comply fully with its obligations under international human rights instruments to which the Sudan is a party and to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as to respect its obligations under international humanitarian law; (b) To ratify the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; 8 (c) To sign and ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; 9 (d) To ratify the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction; 10 (e) To undertake efforts towards promoting an environment that is more conducive to democratization and to improvements in the field of human rights; _______________ 8 Resolution 39/46, annex. Resolution 34/180, annex. 10 See CD/1478. 9 6