Assembly/AU/Decl.1(XXVII)Rev.1 Page 3 7. CALL UPON the Commission to ensure the independence and integrity of AU organs with human rights mandate by providing adequate financing and shielding them from undue external influence; 8. ALSO REITERATE our commitment to eliminate violence and all forms of every discrimination against women and to ensure the protection of the rights of women as stipulated in the Maputo Protocol and the international declarations and conventions as well as empowering women by granting their full rights; 9. FURTHER REITERATE our commitment to promote the right to development (including the right to water and sanitation, health, shelter and education) as an inalienable human and peoples’ right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and political development, in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realized; 10. EXPRESS great satisfaction at the positive contributions made by the AUC and AU Organs with a human rights mandate and REQUEST them to ensure greater synergy between the African Governance Architecture and the African Peace and Security Architecture in order to ensure that the developments in the terrain of human rights feature prominently on the agenda of the Peace and Security Council; 11. ENCOURAGE the Commission and AU Organs with a human rights mandate to strengthen the African system for the promotion and protection of human and peoples’ rights through wider communication and information sharing, coupled with direct support of Member States, by ensuring the strengthening of human rights institutions and putting in place all the necessary measures so that success is documented and challenges noted to ensure that there is on-going review of progress in the implementation of adopted human rights instruments; 12. CALL UPON the RECs to work closely with the Commission and other AU Organs with a human rights mandate in harmonizing their instruments and further urge them to collectively promote and protect human and peoples’ rights on the Continent; 13. ALSO CALL ON the Commission and AU Organs with a human rights mandate to identify modalities for the participation of African Research Institutes, Universities, Civil Society and the Media in promoting the culture of human rights in Africa including the protection and promotion of the rights of women; 14. FURTHER CALL ON the Commission and AU Organs with a human rights mandate to identify the obstacles that have hindered implementation of human and peoples’ rights instruments and our previous commitments relating to human rights with special focus on the rights of women and to propose modalities for addressing them; 15. NOTE WITH APPRECIATION the support provided by our bilateral and multilateral partners and call on them to continue working closely with us to build and enhance the