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(c)
To enhance further his dialogue with Governments, as well as to
follow up on recommendations made in reports after visits to particular
countries;
(d)
To continue to pay special attention to extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions of children and women and to allegations concerning
violations of the right to life in the context of violence against
participants in demonstrations and other peaceful public manifestations or
against persons belonging to minorities;
(e)
To pay special attention to extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions where the victims are individuals who are carrying out peaceful
activities in the defence of human rights and fundamental freedoms;
(f)
To continue monitoring the implementation of existing
international standards on safeguards and restrictions relating to the
imposition of capital punishment, bearing in mind the comments made by the
Human Rights Committee7 in its interpretation of article 6 of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,3 as well as the Second
Optional Protocol thereto;8
(g)
To apply a gender perspective in his work;
9.
Strongly urges all Governments to respond to the communications
transmitted to them by the Special Rapporteur, and urges them and all others
concerned to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur so that he may
carry out his mandate effectively, including, where appropriate, by issuing
invitations to the Special Rapporteur when he so requests;
10.
Encourages Governments, international organizations and
non-governmental organizations to organize training programmes and to support
projects with a view to training or educating military forces, law enforcement
officers and government officials, as well as members of the United Nations
peacekeeping or observer missions, in human rights and humanitarian law issues
connected with their work, and appeals to the international community to
support endeavours to that end;
11.
Urges the Special Rapporteur to continue to draw to the attention
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights such situations of
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions as are of particularly serious
concern to him or where early action might prevent further deterioration;
12.
Welcomes the cooperation established between the Special
Rapporteur and other United Nations mechanisms and procedures in the field of
human rights, as well as with medical and forensic experts, and encourages the
Special Rapporteur to continue efforts in this regard;
13.
Encourages the Governments of all States in which the death
penalty has not been abolished to comply with their obligations under the
relevant provisions of international human rights instruments, taking into
7
See A/51/40, paras. 396-399; see Official Records of the General
Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 40.
8
Resolution 44/128, annex.
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