A/HRC/21/35 incorporating a human rights perspective into a draft sub-decree on urbanization to the Ministry, and plans to take part in further consultations. 37. OHCHR continues to incorporate general principles on business and human rights into its Land and Housing Rights Programme, and advocates for State responsibility in relation to human rights abuses by third parties. In addition, OHCHR works with selected businesses and professional associations to encourage them to apply human rights standards to their activities. In December 2011, OHCHR launched a version in English and Khmer of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework.4 During the reporting period, OHCHR conducted training workshops for civil society organizations (including a briefing to regional organizations at the ASEAN People’s Forum), technical staff members of the United Nations, the Cambodia Human Rights Committee and members of Government ministries on business and human rights (including differentiating it from corporate social responsibility) and the application of the above-mentioned Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the Cambodian context. 38. In May 2010, following the Government’s adoption of a circular on the resolution of temporary settlements on illegally occupied land in urban areas, OHCHR began to support technical assistance efforts for communities to map their territorial boundaries and basic services and infrastructure needs, and to understand their tenure rights in the Cambodian legal framework. During the reporting period, OHCHR continued to work with the authorities, communities and development partners in Battambang Municipality to ensure on-site upgrading and security of tenure. 39. To help to protect the traditional livelihoods and culture of indigenous peoples, OHCHR supports networks of Government, United Nations organizations, civil society and communities to strengthen their capacity to use the domestic legal framework with regard to communal land title. OHCHR provided financial and institutional support to seven villages inhabited by the Phnong indigenous peoples in Bousra commune, Mondulkiri province, and five villages inhabited by the Suoy indigenous peoples in Aoral district, Kampong Speu province, undergoing registration as legal entities with the Government, to enable them to apply for collective land titles in the future. OHCHR also monitors a project whereby more than 800 Phnong families and 238 Suoy families protect themselves against the threat of economic and other types of land concessions, in cooperation with Government ministries, ILO and non-governmental organizations. 40. Despite significant gains in registering indigenous communities for communal land title, the exploitation of the land inhabited by indigenous peoples, including the granting of land concessions, has outpaced the establishment of security of tenure for most communities. OHCHR welcomes the issuance of communal land titles to three indigenous communities in Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri provinces, in December 2011.This significant development demonstrated the commitment to upholding the rights of indigenous peoples to land. Nevertheless, the lack of implementation of interim protective measures for those communities, which are in the process of registration (a lengthy and complex legal process dependent on donor resources), puts indigenous communities at particular risk of land grabbing and of losing their livelihoods owing to land concessions and other development projects. 41. In the case of forcibly evicted communities, OHCHR continues to advocate for planned resettlement, rather than the current practices of relocating communities to sites lacking basic infrastructure and distant from livelihood opportunities, schools and health 4 See A/HRC/17/31. 11

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