A/HRC/RES/58/30 recruitment and use of children in violation of international law, and extrajudicial and summary executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detention, acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and mistreatment of persons in detention, killing and maiming, and attacks on schools and hospitals; 2. Also strongly condemns human rights violations, which include violations and abuses of women’s and girls’ rights, including sexual and gender-based violence, and welcomes the adoption of the National Programme to End Gender-based Violence and the establishment of a framework for reflection on gender-based violence in May 2022, and the specific consideration and punishment of gender-based violence in the new Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure and as part of the process of reviewing the Code of Military Justice; 3. Calls upon all parties to respect the civilian character of schools as such in accordance with international humanitarian law, urges all parties to put an end to violations and abuses committed against schools and to abide by their obligations under applicable international law, including international human rights and humanitarian law, welcomes in this regard the endorsement by the Malian authorities of the Safe Schools Declaration in February 2019, and encourages them to follow up on it, including by drawing up a list of the schools closed as a result of direct threats or insecurity; 4. Recalls in this regard that all perpetrators of such acts must be held accountable before the competent courts, at both the national and the international level; 5. Strongly condemns the attacks, including terrorist attacks, on civilians, representatives of local, regional and central institutions and the Malian Defence and Security Forces, underlines the importance of bringing perpetrators, sponsors, organizers and financiers of these acts to justice, and urges the Transitional Government of Mali to intensify its efforts to ensure that those responsible for these acts are prosecuted, where appropriate; 6. Also strongly condemns the attacks on the civilian population carried out in the context of intercommunal violence and calls upon the Transitional Government of Mali, with the support of the international community, to strengthen its efforts to achieve national reconciliation and to prevent violence in identified hotspots; 7. Reiterates its call for an immediate halt to all human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law and for the strict observance of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, including in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism; 8. Requests all parties to allow, in accordance with the applicable provisions of international humanitarian law and humanitarian principles, safe, full, immediate and unhindered humanitarian access, to facilitate the safe and unrestricted passage of aid, so that it may be rapidly distributed to all those who need it in any part of Mali, and to ensure the safety and protection of the civilians receiving it and of the humanitarian and health personnel working in Mali; 9. Encourages the Malian transitional authorities to continue to implement the recommendations accepted during the fourth cycle of the universal periodic review of Mali, welcomes the criminalization, in the new Criminal Code promulgated on 13 December 2024, of certain forms of gender-based violence and of descent-based slavery and slavery-like practices, in accordance with the applicable international and regional instruments, and also welcomes the judicial and legislative progress made in this regard; 10. Also encourages the international community to continue its support for the efforts of the transitional authorities to ensure greater participation of women in the national reconciliation process and in all decision-making bodies of the peace process, and their political empowerment at all levels, and further encourages the transitional authorities and the Malian parties to strengthen their efforts in this regard, and welcomes the adoption of the road map on gender, elections and reform, accompanied with an action plan for the period from 2024 to 2026; 11. Encourages the Malian transitional authorities to continue to take the necessary actions to prevent the recruitment and use of children, in violation of international GE.25-05559 3