A/HRC/27/43 its judgment. During the reporting period, nine cases reached the trial stage; OHCHR closely followed the hearings. 31. OHCHR continued to work closely with the Court of Appeal to reduce the backlog of long-pending cases. OHCHR visited a number of prisons nationwide to identify the remaining appeal cases which had been pending for more than five years, having previously seen the backlog of cases pending for more than ten years cleared. OHCHR will again collaborate with a legal aid organization (International Bridges to Justice) to provide legal assistance. After several years of concerted joint efforts between OHCHR, the Court of Appeal, the General Department of Prisons and legal aid organizations, much of the backlog of the longest-pending appeal cases has now been cleared. 32. OHCHR work on promoting the legacy of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia has enjoyed some success during the reporting period. As previously mentioned, senior judges and the Ministry of Justice were persuaded to examine best practices from the Extraordinary Chambers when reforming the pretrial detention process. In addition, the publication by OHCHR in March 2014, of the Annotated Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure – Annotations to ECCC and select international jurisprudence,2 in English and Khmer made available a valuable new resource for Cambodian legal practitioners. It was the result of a three-year project and was printed with funding from United States Agency for International Development and the British Embassy in Cambodia. More than 1,500 copies have been distributed to judges, prosecutors, lawyers, academics and law students and it continues to be in high demand. Finally, OHCHR organized, in collaboration with the Bar Association, a series of legal dialogues between lawyers working at the Extraordinary Chambers (defence and civil party lawyers) and lawyers working in the domestic system. IV. Protecting economic and social rights 33. The OHCHR Economic and Social Rights Programme, previously the Land and Housing Rights Programme, was renamed to reflect its expanded focus, although it continues to focus primarily on land and housing rights issues. Through it, OHCHR works to promote and protect the right to adequate housing and an adequate standard of living, prevent forced eviction and promote security of tenure with the understanding that adequate housing is a precondition for the enjoyment of many other economic and social rights, including the rights to work, health and education. 34. While there has been little change in the resolution of disputes or security of tenure in most informal urban settlements during the reporting period, the Government continues to implement its directive No. 001 on private land titling, including in rural areas on and around economic land concessions and logging concessions, and areas administered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of the Environment. Directive No. 001 was issued by the Prime Minister on 7 May 2012 to temporarily halt the granting of new economic land concessions. The directive also called for a review of existing concessions and the implementation of a “leopard-skin” policy, by which the boundaries of existing communities and private titles contained within conceded land would be demarcated and excluded from concessions, and the land titles thereon would be granted. 35. According to government figures, as of April 2014, more than 500,000 land titles had been delivered under the campaign. The Ministry of Land Management, Urban 2 Available from http://cambodia.ohchr.org. 9