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institutional oversight, adopting alternative and complementary methods to policing and the
use of force, and encouraging stocktaking of lessons learned;
(g)
Making recommendations on the concrete steps needed to ensure access to
justice, accountability and redress for excessive use of force and other human rights
violations by law enforcement officials against Africans and people of African descent,
including independent and well-resourced mechanisms to support victims of human rights
violations by law enforcement officials, their families and communities;
(h)
Monitoring the implementation of recommendations on ending impunity for
violations by law enforcement officials emanating from the report of the High Commissioner,
and identifying obstacles to their full implementation;
(i)
Coordinating its work and further strengthening its participation, engagement
and cooperation, as appropriate, with all relevant United Nations mechanisms, bodies and
processes, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations
Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice regional human rights mechanisms and
national human rights institutions;
12.
Calls upon all States and other relevant stakeholders to cooperate fully with
the international independent expert mechanism towards the effective fulfilment of its
mandate and, in particular, to provide it with any information and documentation it may
require, as well as any other forms of assistance pertaining to its mandate;
13.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the international independent expert
mechanism, through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
with full administrative, technical and logistical support and the resources necessary to enable
it to carry out its mandate;
14.
Requests the High Commissioner to enhance and broaden monitoring by the
Office of the High Commissioner, including through its field presences, with the assistance
of relevant special procedure mandate holders and relevant United Nations agencies, in order
to continue to report on systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against
Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, to contribute to
accountability and redress and to take further action globally towards transformative change
for racial justice and equality, including by providing support for and strengthening
assistance to States and other stakeholders, particularly people of African descent and their
organizations, and by giving further visibility to this work;
15.
Requests the High Commissioner and the international independent expert
mechanism each to prepare, on an annual basis, a written report, and to present them jointly
to the Human Rights Council, starting from its fifty-first session, during an enhanced
interactive dialogue that prioritizes the participation of directly affected individuals and
communities, including victims and their families, and to transmit their reports to the General
Assembly;
16.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Office of the High
Commissioner with full administrative, technical and logistical support and the resources
necessary to enable it to carry out its mandate;
17.
Calls upon all States and all relevant stakeholders to cooperate fully with the
High Commissioner in the preparation of the annual reports;
18.
Also calls upon all States and all relevant stakeholders to ensure the
accountability of law enforcement officials for human rights violations and crimes against
Africans and people of African descent, to close trust deficits and to strengthen institutional
oversight;
19.
Further calls upon all States and all relevant stakeholders to ensure that
Africans and people of African descent and those who stand up against racism are protected,
that their voices are heard and that their concerns are acted upon;
20.
Invites all treaty bodies, special procedure mandate holders and international
and regional human rights mechanisms, within their respective mandates, to pay due attention
to all forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, including
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