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Accelerate the adoption of the pending bills, particularly those related to fight against the phenomenon of money laundering and terrorism in order to establish an appropriate legal framework for combating terrorism

Adopt an anti-terrorism law compliant with international standards

Ensure equal access to education for girls and children living in the rural areas, including by adopting concrete measures to eliminate early marriages, FGM and other gender discriminative practices which hinder the education of girls

Allocate adequate resources for ensuring access to safe drinking water and sanitation, to proper health care services for women and children, as well as to affordable and satisfactory education

Take all necessary steps to halt all forced evictions in all locations under its control and particularly in Mogadishu

Develop and approve the legal framework allowing to meet the minimum quota for women to sit in the Federal Parliament

Hold an on-time electoral process in 2016 that is fair, transparent, and inclusive

Ensure that the National Intelligence and Security Agency refrains from detaining journalists, closing media outlets, confiscating media equipment and other law enforcement activities which are beyond its mandate

That the Federal Government at the highest level ensure strong public statements recognizing the legitimate and important role of journalists and human rights defenders in advancing human rights and inclusive politics

Implement legislative instruments in a manner that ensures full freedom of expression, leading to active and genuine civil society participation in the electoral and state-building processes

Adopt clear by-laws and regulations to the new Media Law clarifying the general clauses for the benefit of the journalists instead of further reducing the space of free media

Review the media law of 28 December 2015 to ensure compliance with international standards on freedom of expression

Ensure that the new Media Law is in line with international standards

Secure the defence of journalists, media personnel and media company owners against attacks and prosecute those responsible for such attempts, and adopt an information law

Fully guarantee freedom of expression and the press, in particular by conducting credible and effective investigations into allegations of detentions, harassment and abuses against journalists in Somalia

Take concrete measures ensuring the freedom of expression, independence of the media, protection of journalists, and adopt legislative and other measures to prevent censorship

Release all media workers and human rights defenders arrested and detained for their human rights activities and allow the reopening of closed media outlets

Put an end to the restrictions on freedom of expression, including arrest of journalists and human rights activists

Provide greater freedom to journalism

Ensure that national security shall be pursued in full compliance with international human rights obligations, including the right to a fair trial, the rights to information, freedom of assembly and association and freedom of expression

Step up efforts to ensure accountability and fight impunity and, among other steps in this regard, ratify the Rome Statute of the ICC and the Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the ICC

Ensure that war crimes and crimes against humanity are punished by acceding to the Rome Statute establishing the ICC

Investigate in a prompt, transparent and impartial manner allegations of violations of international law and human rights by armed and security forces and establish procedures for verification and oversight to ensure that perpetrators of grave violations are removed from these forces

Prioritize the investigation and prosecution of senior political and military leaders with command responsibility for violations of international human rights law and ensure civilian oversight of the Federal Government of Somalia security forces

Establish clear vetting procedures to identify and prosecute individuals responsible for serious abuses of human rights such as torture, extrajudicial killings, recruitment of children and sexual violence - including during recruitment and integration of new forces into the SNAF

Ensure the protection of the human rights of journalists and human rights defenders and guarantee that perpetrators of violations against human rights defenders be brought to justice

Address widespread impunity - including for attacks against journalists, civil society and human rights defenders, women and LGBTI persons - by conducting timely and impartial investigations, investigating threats of violence, and prosecuting perpetrators

Deepen measures to ensure the fight against impunity for perpetrators of acts of violence and of all human rights violations

Ensure the prompt, impartial and effective investigation of all attacks and violence against journalists to bring the perpetrators to justice and provide remedies for the victims and their families and, to reform the Penal Code to bring it in line with international standards on freedom of expression

Put an end to the trials of civilians by military tribunals