A/HRC/RES/57/34 10. Encourages the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to submit its sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth periodic reports on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as soon as possible; 11. Also encourages the Government to set up national and provincial committees to monitor pretrial detention, in accordance with its national policy on justice sector reform 2017–2026; 12. Notes the progress of the trial in the case involving the assassination of two United Nations experts before the High Military Court, and encourages the continuation of the proceedings until all the perpetrators have been convicted; 13. Also notes the efforts made to raise awareness of the national policy for the promotion and protection of persons with disabilities and other vulnerable persons and the national strategy for the empowerment and social inclusion of persons with disabilities and other vulnerable persons; 14. Encourages the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to improve conditions of detention and to take additional urgent measures to relieve prison overcrowding, as well as to consider limiting pretrial detention to the period authorized by law, where appropriate, in order to prevent unfortunate incidents such as those which occurred on the night of 1–2 September 2024, and to ensure judicial oversight of all places of detention, and invites the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the necessary technical, logistical and financial support to the Government in its efforts to relieve overcrowding in places of detention; 15. Decides to renew, for one year, the mandate of the team of international experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and requests the team to provide the necessary technical support to the Government in implementing effectively its National Transitional Justice Policy, in particular by taking account of the cross-border nature of conflict and insecurity in the Great Lakes, identifying the causes of conflict and preventing their recurrence, and designing and implementing mechanisms for transitional justice and the fight against impunity, and encourages it to support the Government in this regard, in particular by proposing concrete measures; 16. Encourages collaboration between the team of international experts and the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region; 17. Also encourages the collaboration of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with all United Nations mechanisms, including the universal periodic review and the special procedures; 18. Requests the High Commissioner to continue to provide the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with technical assistance, including the necessary forensic expertise, to support the country’s judicial authorities in their investigations into allegations of serious human rights violations and abuses, including conflict-related sexual violence and grave violations of children’s rights, with a view to bringing the perpetrators to justice, and to strengthen the technical assistance team with the necessary technical and financial resources to help the Government implement effective mechanisms to combat impunity, in accordance with the wishes expressed by the President of the Republic during the high-level segment of the fifty-second session of the Human Rights Council; 19. Also requests the High Commissioner to continue to support the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the development and strengthening of its forensic medicine capacities, in particular through the effective implementation of the road map and recommendations of the Kinshasa Declaration adopted at the international symposium on forensic medicine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, held in Kinshasa from 17 to 19 July 2023, paying particular attention in this regard to the reform of the legal framework and the development of national expertise and national infrastructure, and thus to assist the Government in acquiring the necessary skills and Congolese specialists in the field of forensic medicine; 4 GE.24-18735