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understanding about human rights and fundamental freedoms. The programmes are
designed for the general public, particularly in remote areas, highlighting key human rights
issues and providing information on national and international mechanisms to address
them. During the period under review, 13 radio shows were aired, with expert guest
speakers from State institutions, civil society and the private sector discussing topics as
varied as the right to adequate housing, political participation by young people, indigenous
rights, sexual and gender-based violence, and business and human rights.
69.
The Office commemorated key international days, including the 16 days of activism
to end violence against women, United Nations Day (with the whole United Nations
country team), Human Rights Day, World Press Freedom Day (with UNESCO) and the
International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT, with the
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and UN-Women). OHCHR
organized or participated in events led by local and national authorities, development
partners and civil society organizations, distributed promotional and informational material,
and contributed opinion pieces to increase awareness.
70.
As part of the celebrations, OHCHR organized two online quiz competitions. The
first was a quiz for the seventieth anniversary of the Organization on United Nations Day
2015, which tested participants’ knowledge on the United Nations and the specific work
carried out by United Nations agencies and entities operating in Cambodia. The top three
winners received awards, a tour of three United Nations offices in Phnom Penh, and a
presentation on the work carried out by each. The second quiz for 10 December 2015 tested
participants’ knowledge of international human rights law and human rights issues in
Cambodia. The two quiz apps were designed as learning tools, encouraging players to do
their own research. Both proved very successful, and considerably enhanced the public
profile of OHCHR and United Nations agencies, particularly among young people.
71.
In June 2016, OHCHR launched a dynamic bilingual website that allows for realtime updating. OHCHR also strengthened its use of social media channels to disseminate
information, increasing the number of posts published and garnering many more followers
on both Facebook and Twitter.
72.
OHCHR expanded its video work, again producing original videos as well as Khmer
versions of previously existing ones. It made available in Khmer “The cost of
discrimination”, one of the videos from the OHCHR-led Free and Equal campaign in
support of LGBT rights, and another externally-sourced video on the Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights. OHCHR also produced four short videos – interviews
conducted with activists and senior figures in Cambodia – on the value of the work carried
out by the Office in Cambodia and how it has either personally affected the interviewee or
benefited Cambodian society. It released online a 4-minute video presenting the work of the
office since its establishment in 1993.5
73.
Capitalizing on the growing access to Internet and use of smartphones nationwide,
OHCHR developed three phone apps using interactive voice response technology to
disseminate human rights information. The apps are based on three of its most popular
information materials: a cartoon book on the “Protect, Respect and Remedy” framework on
business and human rights; an ”arrest rights card”’, summarizing a person’s rights in the
event of arrest in Cambodia, based on a publication developed jointly with the Ministry of
Justice and the Ministry of the Interior; and the “Peaceful Demonstration Law” leaflet,
developed with the Ministry of the Interior to spell out the relevant steps, rights and
obligations of organizers and local authorities. OHCHR translated in Bunong and Kuy
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