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restructured and fully integrated national army, and also the formation of an
integrated and adequately resourced national police force, while ensuring that
government institutions, including the army and police, are trained in human rights
aspects of their work; and ensuring that both light and heavy weapons are being
surrendered in the disarmament process;
(b) To strengthen the transitional institutions, in particular to set up
effectively the Independent Electoral Commission, and to make more effective the
institutions for the strengthening of democracy, namely, the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, the Human Rights Monitoring Centre and the Haute
Autorité des Médias, and to re-establish stability and the rule of law over the entire
territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thereby returning peace and
progress to its people;
(c) To comply fully with its obligations under international human rights
instruments and, accordingly, to continue to cooperate with United Nations
mechanisms for the protection of human rights and further strengthen its
cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights and the Human Rights Section of the United Nations Organization Mission in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo;
(d) To put an end to impunity and to ensure, as it is duty-bound to do, that
those responsible for human rights violations and grave breaches of international
humanitarian law are brought to justice in accordance with applicable international
procedural standards, and to carry out urgently a comprehensive reform of the
judicial and prison system;
(e) To promote the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and
children and to meet the special needs of women and girls in post-conflict
reconstruction, as well as to ensure the full participation of women in all aspects of
conflict resolution and peace processes, including peacekeeping, conflict
management and peacebuilding, as a matter of priority, in accordance with Security
Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000 on women and peace and
security;
(f) To continue to cooperate fully with the International Criminal Court and
with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, by ensuring that they have all
necessary means with which to accomplish their tasks;
(g) To continue to uphold its commitment to abolishing the death penalty
and not to impose it on juvenile offenders in line with its obligations assumed under
the relevant provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 6
and other human rights instruments;
(h) To prevent the use of the media to incite hatred or tensions among
communities, while respecting freedom of expression and of the press, particularly
during the electoral campaign;
(i) To ensure that human rights defenders are protected from abuses, threats
and harassment;
(j) To accelerate its programme to demobilize, disarm and reintegrate former
combatants, taking into account the special needs of women and children, including
girls, associated with those combatants;
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See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
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