· Immediately refrain from committing abuses against civilians and enemy combatants and publicly acknowledge and condemn such abuses committed. · End the recruitment of all Liberian and Ivorian children and ensure that child soldiers are promptly disarmed, demobilized and provided adequate humanitarian assistance and other forms of support for their physical and psychological rehabilitation and social reintegration. · Support, cooperate with, and create a conducive environment for the proper functioning of the human rights monitoring component of MINUCI. · Cooperate with any future international or national commission of inquiry into abuses, including through the preservation of mass grave sites and other evidence. · Issue clear instructions to all combatants that they should allow the free return of all displaced people to areas in their control, in particular members of the Baoulé ethnic group who fled Bouaké and other locations in rebel-controlled territory. To the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union: · Request and provide funding for the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to conduct a thorough fact-finding investigation into recent violence, ongoing human rights abuses, and the role of external actors such as Liberia, Burkina Faso and Liberian rebel groups in supporting the parties to the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire. The investigation team should cooperate with any future international commission of inquiry with regard to recommending compensation to those West African immigrants who have been victims of abuses and loss of assets and do not wish to return to Côte d’Ivoire. · Press for mechanisms to be established to ensure an end to impunity for the human rights and humanitarian law violations that have taken place in Côte d'Ivoire since October 2000. To the United Nations Security Council: · Extend and broaden the mandate of the U.N. Panel of Experts on Liberia to investigate regional financing and support to abusive Liberian armed groups involved in the Côte d’Ivoire conflict, and consider extending the sanctions regime against those governments against whom there is evidence of such support. · Condemn the practice of recruitment of refugees from camps by governments and rebel groups in the region and request UNHCR to take urgent measures to improve protection, in collaboration with other U.N. and nongovernmental humanitarian agencies. · Condemn the practice of recruitment of children, urge that all child soldiers be immediately disarmed and demobilized and request UNICEF, in collaboration with the government of Côte d´Ivoire, to ensure adequate humanitarian assistance and other forms of support for their physical and psychological rehabilitation and social reintegration. · Mandate the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions to request permission from the government of Côte d’Ivoire to conduct a fact-finding mission into recent events. · Ensure that the human rights unit of MINUCI is adequately funded, has an extensive field presence, and submits reports on ongoing human rights abuses in Côte d’Ivoire to the Security Council through the Office of the Resident Representative in Côte d’Ivoire, according to the terms of Security Council Resolution 1479. These reports should be made public. Human Rights Watch 4 August 2003, Vol. 15, No. 14 (A)