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Continue its efforts to ensure legal ownership and restitution to long-term internally displaced persons and refugees, as provided by international law standards

Fully implement the recommendations of the Consultative Task Force on Reconciliation, including to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act and replace it with international best practice legislation

Develop an unambiguous timeline accompanied with a monitoring framework for the full implementation of its commitments under Human Rights Council resolution 30/1

Move with concrete steps — most evidently seen through committed financial resources in the national budget, and appointed experts with concrete mandates — on all four transitional justice mechanisms

Ensure, in law and in practice, that all detainees are afforded fundamental legal safeguards from the outset

Abolish capital punishment and commute death sentences to prison terms

Reinforce its policies to provide asylum seekers and refugees access to education services that are available nationally

Continue to take measures to end all forms of violence against women and expedite the finalization of amendments to the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act

Take measures to provide the victims of trafficking with effective remedy, including compensation and rehabilitation

Take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of civil society actors and journalists and to investigate cases of threats and attacks against them

Continue to promote national reconciliation by preventing acts of violence and intimidation against religious and ethnic minorities, and by ensuring effective prosecution and punishment of perpetrators

Establish a comprehensive transitional justice mechanism, including operationalizing of an Office of Missing Persons, a truth-seeking commission, an Office of Reparations and a judicial mechanism with a special counsel, as committed to

Continue to investigate, in an independent and impartial manner, all human rights violations committed during the conflict and its aftermath, and to prosecute perpetrators and ensure proper redress to the victims affected, in this regard

Continue the process of constitutional reforms, including consideration of a new Bill of Rights that will, amongst others, guarantee the right to life and the right to non-discrimination on any ground

Continue efforts to consolidate national reconciliation as a lasting response to the aftermath of the armed conflict