UN Security Council
2009

order to ensure good governance, full representation and accountability at both national and subnational levels, and stresses the need for further international efforts to provide technical assistance in this area; 09-27712 7 S/RES/1868 (2009) 27. Encourages the international community to assist the Government of Afghanistan in making capacity-building and human resources development a crosscutting priority; 28. Calls for full respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and international humanitarian law throughout Afghanistan, notes with concern the increasing restrictions on freedom of media, commends the AIHRC for its courageous efforts to monitor respect for human rights in Afghanistan as well as to foster and protect these rights and to promote the emergence of a pluralistic civil society, and stresses the importance of full cooperation with the AIHRC by all relevant actors; 29. Recognizes the significant progress achieved on gender equality in Afghanistan in recent years, strongly condemns continuing forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls, in particular violence aimed at preventing girls from attending schools, stresses the importance of implementing Security