A/HRC/RES/58/18 status of civil society organizations that tended to victims of violence, particularly Indigenous and Afrodescendent women and girls, and urges Nicaragua to take effective measures to prevent, investigate and ensure accountability for sexual and gender-based violence, including gender-related killings, and to take a survivor-centred approach to sexual and gender-based violence and abuse; 11. Urges the Government of Nicaragua to take effective measures, in full and meaningful consultation with Indigenous Peoples and Afrodescendants and in accordance with its legal obligations, to prevent and address the increasing violence and discrimination committed against them, including by conducting prompt and independent investigations into reported harassment, threats, criminalization, arbitrary detention, confiscation of property, prohibition of entering the country, forced displacement, torture and mutilation, sexual and gender-based violence, attacks, killings and land seizures by armed groups; 12. Also urges the Government of Nicaragua to adopt effective measures to guarantee the independence, transparency and impartiality of the justice system, the legislative, the electoral authorities, the control and oversight authorities, the National Police, the Attorney General’s Office, the Public Defender’s Office and the Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office, to cease its political interference in the judiciary and the legislative, including through the arbitrary detention of magistrates and other high-ranking judicial and legislative officials, to uphold its international obligations with respect to fair trial guarantees and to adopt effective measures to re-establish the separation of powers and the rule of law; 13. Encourages the Government of Nicaragua to adopt a time-bound action plan to implement the recommendations made by international and regional human rights mechanisms, including those made in the reports of the High Commissioner, the report of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua and by the treaty bodies, and the recommendations received during the third and fourth cycles of the universal periodic review of Nicaragua,2 in meaningful consultation with civil society and victims; 14. Calls upon the Government of Nicaragua to prevent, refrain from and publicly condemn, investigate, punish and redress any acts of intimidation, harassment or reprisal against political leaders, journalists and other media workers, human rights defenders, religious leaders, business people, Indigenous Peoples, Afrodescendants, peasants and members of the campesino movement, academics and students, artists and cultural workers, and any individual critical of the Government, including against those who are part of, cooperate or seek to cooperate with international and regional bodies, including the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights, and with regional mechanisms; 15. Urges the Government of Nicaragua to respect all civil and political rights, including the right to a nationality, and to guarantee the conditions for the voluntary, safe return to Nicaragua, without fear of new reprisals, intimidation or attacks, of all those living in exile; 16. Encourages States to adopt measures, in line with international law and standards, conducive to hosting individuals who have been deprived of their nationality, forced to leave, denied entry into the territory of Nicaragua or have fled the country, and their families, including by facilitating their fair and effective access to identification and asylum procedures; 17. Urges the Government of Nicaragua to adopt electoral and institutional reforms and to reinstate and engage in a dialogue with all political parties, civil society and other actors in Nicaragua or in exile, with the aim of ensuring genuine elections that are free and fair, carried out in a transparent manner with independent international observers; 18. Decides to renew, for a period of two years, the mandate of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua as established in its resolution 49/3; 19. Requests the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua to submit a comprehensive report to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-first and sixty-fourth sessions, 2 See A/HRC/42/16 and A/HRC/58/17. 7