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integrates international human rights standards, including indicators relating to the
implementation of selected human rights mechanisms recommendations. OHCHR co-leads,
together with UN-Women, the Framework pillar on “governance and human rights”.
80.
As one concrete example, the Theme Group mobilised the United Nations country
team in engaging with the Government and civil society partners on the issue of the
treatment of persons in street situations (namely, persons living, working, or otherwise
dependent on the streets) in Cambodia. The first ever national conference on “Persons in
street situations in Cambodia: strategies, proposals and long-term solutions”, co-hosted by
the country team and the Ministry for Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation,
was held in December, with support from resource persons from the region and beyond, to
discuss the recurring street sweeps and the treatment of persons held involuntarily in social
affairs centres. At the conference, participants formulated a number of strategies and
proposals to provide long-term and sustainable human rights-based solutions to the affected
groups and individuals. The event was supported – financially, substantively and through
the provision of national and regional expertise – by the Office of the Resident Coordinator,
OHCHR, UNAIDS, UN-Women, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations
Children’s Fund and the inter-agency Disability Rights Initiative in Cambodia. The seven
United Nations entities took responsibility for specific panel and group discussions, joined
by, inter alia, a former member of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The creation of a multi-stakeholder technical working group was announced by the
Ministry during the conference, and OHCHR has continued to liaise closely with the United
Nations system in Cambodia in advocating for and supporting the implementation of the
recommendations made at the conference.
IX. Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Cambodia
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OHCHR functions in Cambodia on the basis of a biennial resolution of the Human
Rights Council, the global mandate of OHCHR, the Charter of the United Nations and a
Memorandum of Understanding concluded with the Government of Cambodia, which is
subject to biennial renewal. Discussions on the renewal of the Memorandum have been
ongoing since the expiry of the previous Memorandum on 31 December 2015.
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