A/RES/55/116 (iv) Information that all means of avoiding the execution of severe, inhuman punishments have not been fully utilized; 3. Urges all parties to the continuing conflict in the Sudan: (a) To work immediately to put in place a global, lasting and effectively monitored ceasefire as a first necessary step to a negotiated settlement to the conflict; (b) To respect and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, to respect fully international humanitarian law, thereby facilitating the voluntary return, repatriation and reintegration of refugees and internally displaced persons to their homes, and to ensure that those responsible for violations of human rights and international humanitarian law are brought to justice; (c) To stop immediately the use of weapons, including indiscriminate artillery shelling and landmines, in particular by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement, against the civilian population, which runs counter to principles of international humanitarian law; (d) To stop attacks on sites that usually have a significant presence of children as well as during the “days of tranquillity” which had been agreed upon for the purpose of ensuring peaceful polio vaccination campaigns; (e) To stop immediately the use of civilian premises for military purposes, in particular by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement, particularly sites that usually have a significant presence of children; (f) To grant full, safe and unhindered access to international agencies and humanitarian organizations so as to facilitate by all means possible the delivery of humanitarian assistance, in conformity with international humanitarian law, to all civilians in need of protection and assistance, in particular in Bahr el-Ghazal, the Nuba Mountains, the Western Upper Nile and areas in need throughout the country, and to continue to cooperate in this regard with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat and Operation Lifeline Sudan in the delivery of such assistance, and urges the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement to resume negotiations as soon as possible with a view to the withdrawal of the conditions imposed on the work of international agencies and humanitarian organizations; (g) In particular the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement, not to misappropriate humanitarian assistance; (h) To continue to cooperate with the peace efforts of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, and, in this context, urges the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement to commit itself to a permanent ceasefire; (i) Not to use or recruit children under the age of eighteen as soldiers, and urges the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement not to use or recruit children under the age of eighteen as soldiers and to refrain from the practice of forced conscription; (j) To fulfil their commitments concerning the protection of children affected by war, including their commitments to cease the use of anti-personnel landmines, the abduction and exploitation of children and the recruitment of children by the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement as soldiers, to advance 4