A/HRC/42/60/Add.2 Comments on Factual Errors on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia dated on 25 June 2019 The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the comments by the Royal Government of Cambodia on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia and its addendum. Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) Paragraph 58, 1st Sentence Anti-Corruption Unit is of the view that a UN institution should not use any corruption assessment by those other than that of the UN body that is in charge of corruption, i.e. UNODC or that of UNCAC implementation assessment. As far as the TI’s Corruption Perception Index is concerned, UNODC has never recognized and accepted such index reporting. Hence, any suggestion for giving priority to anti-corruption should not be based on other reasoning, not the TI figure. ACU deems the sentence should be written as follows: Based on people’s complaints and many requests in the Cambodian society both within the CSO and the Government, anti-corruption work is considered as one of the priority targets and thus it should be reflected in CSDGs. Ministry of Women’s Affairs Paragraph 22. An underlying principle of the SDGs is to ‘leave no one behind’. There are two dedicated goals on combating inequality and discrimination (Goal 5 on achieving gender equality and empower all women and girls and Goal 10 on reducing inequalities within and between States) while SDG 16 identifies the promotion and enforcement of non-discriminatory laws and policies as a means of implementation toward to sustainable development (16b)…. Paragraph 59. This is important given that judicial institutions are themselves key to ensuring accountability in society and have an important role when it comes to prosecutions related to corruption. Confidence in the state and state mechanisms can drop when there is no or limited access to remedies and instruments on accountability. The Special Rapporteur recommends the Government to include the judicial integrity study in the JMIs for 2019-2021 (JMIs for 20192023) and for the Ministry of Justice…. Paragraph 73. Improving the enjoyment of political rights is an end in itself, but it is also important to meeting Cambodia’s development commitments to implement the 2030 Agenda. So much so is clearly recognized in SDG 16 and its target of ensuring participatory decision-making at all levels (SDG16.7). It is also noteworthy that the proportion of female government officials in ministries/agencies has been raised by 1%, increasing from 40% in 2016 to 41% in 2018. (Source: Cambodia’s Voluntary National Review 2019. Page 39 at 16.7.1). In this regard, the CSDG framework would benefit from a clearer reflection of the human rights aspects of the 2030 Agenda… Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training: No comment Ministry of Post and Telecommunication: No comment 2