Court pursuant to article 13 (b) of its Statute”.88 Regarding Côte d’Ivoire (2004),
the Commission requested the Security Council to expand the mandate of the
United Nations mission in the country “to ensure the protection of witnesses to the
indiscriminate killings of 25 March, especially those individuals and groups that
provided confidentially valuable information to the Commission”.89 The Commission
of Inquiry on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2013), in addition to
recommending that the Security Council should refer the situation to the International
Criminal Court for action in accordance with that Court’s jurisdiction, recommended
that the “Security Council should also adopt targeted sanctions against those who
appear to be most responsible for crimes against humanity”.90
(viii) Recommendations for OHCHR and other United Nations entities – commissions/
missions often recommend that the role of OHCHR in monitoring the human
rights situation be strengthened. For example, in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (1997), the Investigative Team recommended that: “The Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights should strengthen its country Field Office and set up
provincial branches of it”.91 The Commission on the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea recommended that “the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,
with full support from the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, should
establish a structure to help to ensure accountability for human rights violations in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular where such violations amount to
crimes against humanity.”92 Recommendations have also been addressed to United
Nations missions. For example, the Commission on Libya (2011) recommended to
the United Nations Support Mission in Libya “to monitor the implementation of the
recommendations made by the Commission in the present report; to provide the
Government of Libya with technical assistance in meeting its international human
rights law obligations, particularly those where shortcomings have been noted in the
present report; to work with the interim Government on capacity-building programmes
for courts, prisons, police, prosecutors and defence lawyers, and to coordinate the
support of the international community for such programmes”.93 Finally, the Mission
investigating Israeli settlements (2012) recommended that the Human Rights Council’s
Working Group on Business and Human Rights should be seized of the issue of
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88
S/2005/60, para. 647.
89
Report of the Commission of Inquiry on the events connected with the march planned for 25 March 2004 in Abidjan
(S/2004/384), para. 89.
90
A/HRC/25/63, para. 94 (a).
91
Report of the Secretary-General’s Investigative Team charged with investigating serious violations of human rights and
international humanitarian law in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (S/1998/581), chap. IV, sect. B, para. 9.
92
A/HRC/25/63, para. 94 (c).
93
See A/HRC/19/68, para. 129.
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