A/RES/57/230 implementing the commitments made to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons and by ensuring their access to effective protection and assistance; (l) To liberalize the system for maintaining public order; (m) To implement the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; 12 (n) To ensure that capital punishment will not be imposed for crimes other than the most serious and will not be pronounced in disregard of the obligations assumed under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the provisions of United Nations safeguards; (o) To make further efforts to implement the commitment made to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict not to recruit children under the age of 18 as soldiers and to enforce national laws that prevent the recruitment of children in armed conflicts; 5. Encourages: (a) The Government of the Sudan to continue its cooperation with the United Nations in the field of human rights through the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and its expert in Khartoum entrusted with the task of advising the Government on the development of national capacity to promote and protect human rights; (b) The Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement to allow the people-to-people peace process to develop freely and unhindered and to consider it an important contribution to the peace process; 6. Calls upon the international community to expand its support for activities aimed at improving respect for human rights and humanitarian law in the Sudan, in particular those of the Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children, to continue assisting national efforts to build up democratic and civil society structures in the Sudan and to consider how to expand the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to include a monitoring role; 7. Decides to continue its consideration of the situation of human rights in the Sudan at its fifty-eighth session, under the item entitled “Human rights questions”, in the light of additional elements provided by the Commission on Human Rights. 77th plenary meeting 18 December 2002 _______________ 12 See Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, volume I (First Part) (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.XIV.1 (Vol. I, Part 1)). 6