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(e) To provide efficient and effective remedies to the victims of grave violations and abuses of human
rights and of international humanitarian law and to bring the perpetrators to trial;
(f) To treat all suspects and convicted or detained persons in accordance with relevant international
instruments and to refrain from arbitrary detention, including detention of civilian foreign nationals, and
urges their captors to release them as well as non-criminal civilian prisoners;
9. Demands that all the Afghan parties fulfil their obligations regarding the safety of all personnel of
diplomatic missions, the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as their premises in
Afghanistan, and to cooperate fully and without discrimination on grounds of gender, nationality or religion
with the United Nations and associated bodies and with other humanitarian organizations, agencies and
non-governmental organizations;
10. Urges all the Afghan parties, in particular the Taliban, to bring to an end without delay all
violations of human rights against women and girls and to take urgent measures to ensure:
(a) The repeal of all legislative and other measures that discriminate against women and girls and those
that impede the realization of all their human rights;
(b) The effective participation of women in civil, cultural, economic, political and social life
throughout the country;
(c) Respect for the right of women to work and their reintegration into employment;
(d) The right of women and girls to education without discrimination, the reopening of schools and
the admission of women and girls to all levels of education;
(e) Respect for the right of women to security of person, and that those responsible for physical attacks
on women are brought to justice;
(f) Respect for the freedom of movement of women and their effective and equal access to the
facilities necessary to protect their right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;
11. Notes with appreciation the visit of the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights
on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and looks forward to her conclusions and
recommendations;
12. Also notes with appreciation the activities carried out by the International Committee of the Red
Cross throughout the territory of Afghanistan;
13. Invites the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to
proceed without delay to investigate fully reports of mass killings of prisoners of war and civilians, rape and
cruel treatment in Afghanistan, and calls upon the United Front and the Taliban to fulfil their stated
commitment to cooperate with such investigations;
14. Also invites the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner to ensure that the ongoing process
of deployment of the civilian affairs observers in Afghanistan is completed as soon as possible and that
gender issues and the rights of children are fully taken into account in their mission;
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