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(d) The efforts made by the Government of Cambodia in combating corruption,
including the completion of the drafting of an anti-corruption law and efforts to bring corrupt
officials to justice, as well as its efforts in stopping political appointments to posts in public
administration based upon the allocation of political parties;
(e) The efforts made by the Government of Cambodia in combating trafficking in
persons, including the enforcement of the law on the suppression of human trafficking and
commercial sexual exploitation;
(f) The efforts made by the Government of Cambodia to resolve land issues through the
implementation of land reform;
(g) The commitments made by the Government of Cambodia to adhere to and
implement its obligations under the international human rights conventions, inter alia, the
commitment made by Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen on the occasion of the opening of the
eighth informal Asia-Europe Meeting seminar on human rights, held in Siem Reap in
September 2007, which included reference to the planned establishment of a national human
rights institution;
(h) The efforts made by the Cambodian Human Rights Committee, especially in
resolving complaints from people, improving the situation of prisons and intervening in
prolonged pretrial detentions;
(i) The efforts made by the Government of Cambodia to adhere to its obligations under
international human rights treaties, including the submission of its reports to the Committee on
the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Committee on the Rights of the Child in
February 2009, as well as to the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in
May 2009;
(j) The efforts and progress made by the Government of Cambodia in promoting
decentralization and deconcentration reform with the aim of achieving democratic development
by strengthening subnational and grass-roots institutions, including the local elections at
provincial/municipal and district/sangkat levels, held in May 2009, which demonstrated the
continued development of the democratic process in Cambodia, while recognizing the need to
strengthen further the enforcement capacity of the national election committee;
(k) The approval of the National Disability Law by the National Assembly in May 2009,
and the approval of a sub-decree on procedures for the registration of the land of indigenous
minority communities and a policy on the development of indigenous minorities by the Council
of Ministers in April 2009;
5.
Expresses its concern about some areas of human rights practices in Cambodia, and
urges the Government of Cambodia:
(a) To continue to strengthen its efforts to establish the rule of law, including through the
adoption and implementation of essential laws and codes for establishing a democratic society,
and its efforts at judicial reform, especially to ensure the independence, impartiality,
transparency and effectiveness of the judicial system as a whole;
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