A/HRC/42/31 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 68. 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. 70. 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 13

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