A/HRC/30/30 number of discussions, the Refugee Department of the Ministry of the Interior,7 OHCHR and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) retrieved, through a joint mission in December 2014, 13 Montagnards who had been hiding in the forests of Ratanakkiri. They were brought to the premises of the Refugee Department in Phnom Penh, where they were duly registered as asylum seekers. Their cases were examined in due course, after which they were granted refugee status by the Government in March 2015. 56. More small groups of Montagnards – mostly ethnic Jarai and a small number of ethnic Ede – have continued to cross over since January 2015. In January and February, the Ratanakkiri authorities deported 54 Montagnards, which led OHCHR and others to express concerns about refoulement, a measure that violates the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees to which Cambodia is a party. In April 2015, the border police in Ratanakkiri were reportedly reinforced by hundreds of soldiers to prevent further crossings of Montagnard asylum seekers into Cambodia. As at July 2015, the number of Montagnards who had reached Phnom Penh numbered more than 150, all of whom presented themselves to OHCHR or UNHCR, which systematically notified the Refugee Department for registration; registration was denied in every case. In addition, more than 100 Vietnamese Montagnards have crossed into Thailand to seek asylum from UNHCR, which is responsible for determining refugee status in Thailand. 57. In March 2015, representatives of UNHCR and the Governments of Cambodia and Viet Nam met to discuss the situation of the Montagnards. UNHCR was invited by Viet Nam to visit the Central Highlands to assess the situation there. A visit was conducted from 13 to 17 May 2015. 58. In September 2014, Cambodia signed a refugee relocation agreement with Australia whereby Cambodia would receive and settle refugees from Nauru. The first four refugees from Nauru arrived on 4 June 2015. The reception of the refugees provides an opportunity to reaffirm the procedure by which due process will be ensured and assistance provided to the entire refugee and asylum-seeker population in Cambodia, including the Montagnards. OHCHR and UNHCR have consistently advocated that all asylum seekers should be registered and accorded an individual assessment of their claims, in conformity with the State’s obligations under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. Those recognized as refugees should be settled and provided with the assistance that such status entails. VII. Public information 59. In December 2014, OHCHR, in partnership with the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, launched a series of monthly radio programmes in Khmer in order to raise awareness and understanding about fundamental freedoms and issues relating to business and human rights. The aim of the initiative was to reach wide segments of the general population, particularly in the more remote areas of the country, to highlight key human rights issues and provide information on the mechanisms to address them. To date, representatives of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Information, the governmental Cambodian Human Rights Committee, the 7 The Refugee Office was established in 2009 under Sub decree 224, in accordance with which the Cambodian Government took over from UNHCR the responsibility to conduct refugee status determination and assumed its full obligations as a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention. In May 2014, it became the Refugee Department under the newly instated Department of Immigration. 13