6.0 Institutional Reform
1. Vetting
a. Public employees who are personally responsible for gross
human rights violations or serious crimes under international
law must be excluded from public service to reestablish
public trust and re-legitimise public institutions.
b.
Vetting must not be solely on the basis of group or party
afliation as this tends to cast the net too wide and to
remove public employees of integrity who bear no individual
responsibility for past abuses.
c.
In vetting, there is need for a strategic approach targeting
critical areas
2. Oversight
a. Oversight bodies must be established to maintain a check
on institutions that may have a bearing on the enjoyment of
rights.
b.
Such agencies should be given as broad a mandate as
possible, which must be clearly outlined in the Constitution or
any other legislative text. In principle, there must be
measures that guarantee such bodies of independence and
pluralism, methods of operation and additional principles of
their semi-judicial competence.
c.
Oversight bodies must be accessible to the people, with
ofces throughout the country at least in every district
3. Structural and Legal Reform
a. There is need for comprehensive reform of all state institutions
and agencies
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