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66.
OHCHR has been active in the United Nations gender theme group, including in the
preparation of the submission by the country team for Cambodia’s sixth periodic report to
the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. OHCHR has been an
active member of the thematic working group on urbanization, contributing to developing
regional strategies for sustainable urbanization.
67.
OHCHR, together with the United Nations country team, continued to promote
equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, within and beyond
the global Free and Equal campaign. OHCHR disseminated English and Khmer versions of
the global campaign videos on its social media platform, reaching a total of 4,582 people.
OHCHR helped translate, print and promote “Revealing the rainbow: the human rights
situation of South East Asia’s LGBTIQ communities and their leaders”, a report by
Destination Justice, which helped foster conversation in preparation for the universal
periodic review on Cambodia to be held in January 2019. Together with the Joint United
Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UN-Women and others, OHCHR also supported an
“advocacy dialogue on LGBT social inclusiveness”, organized by KHANA Purple,
bringing together activists and development partners to discuss advocacy strategies to
promote inclusion in national policies. This was followed in May 2018 by the National
Public Policy Dialogue, which brought policymakers from the Ministry of Information, the
Ministry of Women’s Affairs, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, the Ministry
of Justice and the General Department of Identification of the Ministry of Interior together
with over 70 LGBT activists, representatives from civil society organizations and United
Nations agencies, and helped bring the challenges faced by LGBT people to the attention of
government actors with a view to encouraging the prohibition of discrimination based on
sexual orientation and gender identity. In 2019, and with support from Free and Equal,
OHCHR, together with the United Nations country team, is producing a video to challenge
stereotypes and combat discrimination against LGBT persons, which will be released in
June.
VIII. Increasing implementation of the outcomes of international
human rights mechanisms
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OHCHR assisted the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
Cambodia with the preparations for three visits, which took place from 5 to 14 March 2018,
29 October to 8 November 2018 and 29 April to 9 May 2019.
69.
To increase the capacity of officials involved in drafting reports to treaty bodies, and
with support from the OHCHR treaty body capacity-building programme, the Cambodia
Office conducted a training session with the Cambodian Human Rights Committee, with
the participation of representatives of ministries and other institutions responsible for
implementing treaty body recommendations. To continue strengthening the implementation
of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the local level, OHCHR
supported training by the Disability Action Council of its local officials in Siem Reap
Province in August 2018.
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OHCHR continued its technical support to the Cambodian Human Rights
Committee, the Disability Action Council, the Cambodian National Council on Women and
the Cambodian National Council on Children to ensure that the State reports comply with
the reporting guidelines. It supported the Cambodian Human Rights Committee in
organizing a consultation on the national report to the universal periodic review, with the
participation of civil society, development partners and line ministries. It also provided
assistance to civil society organizations on engaging with the human rights mechanisms. In
May 2019, OHCHR held a meeting with the Cambodian Human Rights Committee to
discuss the organization of a national conference to promote implementation of the
recommendations emerging from the third universal periodic review.
71.
The Government submitted its third national report under the universal periodic
review, its sixth periodic report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW/C/KHM/6), its combined fourth to sixth periodic reports to the
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC/C/KHM/4-6) and its combined fourteenth to
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