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Establish a human rights unit within the Ministry of Justice.

Enact, with immediate effect, the new Media Law passed by the Lower House of Parliament.

Include civil society and human rights defenders in the development of legislation and decision-making processes, through an institutionalized consultation process.

Strengthen its efforts to promote self-reliance of the returned refugees and IDPs

Identify specific challenges confronting the country, prioritize them in line with the needs and aspirations of its citizens and then seek support from the international community to face these challenges in a systematic and verifiable manner.

Take further steps to eliminate torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and to ensure an effective and impartial judicial system.

Take timely and efficient measures to ensure that the national legal framework properly incorporates international standards and conventions, ratified by Afghanistan, pertaining to women's rights, for example CEDAW.

Launch public information campaigns and work with religious leaders to raise awareness of the legal rights for women and girls guaranteed in Afghanistan's Constitution, including the legal age for marriage.

Take urgent and radical measures regarding legislation which will allow a real improvement of the situation of women and will guarantee the respect of their human rights, including, in particular, the right to education.

Give priority to achieving the objectives set by its national development strategy and in particular its commitment to ensure that women take, at minimum, 35 per cent of places in professional training programmes and 20 per cent of vacant posts.

Ensure that State institutions and the judiciary uphold human rights and that new legislation does not contravene international human rights law.

Stimulate those citizens with social influence, such as political leaders, journalists, artists and social elements with high visibility to increase society's awareness of human rights.

Persevere in fighting corruption, in educating its people and especially its children, and in further empowering its womenfolk for greater participation in all sectors.

Take all steps necessary to combat discrimination and violence against women, both in regards to legislation and awareness-raising to ensure that women are informed of their rights.

Continue efforts to increase the capacity to implement the national plan for women in Afghanistan.

Persevere in its praiseworthy efforts to promote women's rights, continue to attach high levels of importance to the human rights culture and pursue its dissemination among young generations within the framework of educational programmes.

Take all possible measures to prevent the recruitment of children and the use of child combatants by the Taliban.

Foster a genuine culture of human rights in line with national and regional particularities as well as cultural, historical and religious backgrounds

Redouble its efforts to fully implement, as soon as possible, the plan of action for peace, justice and reconciliation, adopted in 2005

Continue its efforts to promote the rights of women and gender equality.

The Afghan Government sign and ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, abolish the death penalty and commute the sentences of those facing execution.

Continue the process of transitional justice.

Introduce a moratorium on the use of the death penalty, with a view to its abolition.

Establish an agile and efficient mechanism to respond to the requests for information formulated by special procedures in their communications (allegations and urgent appeals) and assign the means necessary to grant protection to the people and groups referred to in those communications.

Take extensive and timely steps to ensure the independence of the media free from intimidation and suppression, including through proper implementation of the media law passed in the fall of 2008.

Elaborate a road map to improve prison conditions and to prevent mistreatment of prisoners.

Pay greater attention to the respect for women's rights when adopting legislative measures and abrogate all discriminatory measures against women.

Take the necessary measures to protect journalists against intimidation, violence, censorship and abusive convictions, and have published and applied the new media law adopted by the Parliament.

Undertake a national process to harmonize legislation, including local laws, with international human rights obligations

Strengthen and implement, with the support of the international community, the commitments it has made in paragraph 90 of its national report.