A/HRC/30/30 44. On 11 May 2015, in response to an application for preservative relief, the Court of Appeal recognized for the first time in a Cambodian court the legality and legitimacy of a communal land title and the co-ownership of land by a Phnong indigenous community in Mondulkiri Province, overturning a contrary verdict of the provincial court. OHCHR intends to assist in disseminating this landmark ruling widely, particularly in those provinces with large numbers of indigenous communities. 45. Through the Technical Working Group on Land, which is composed of representatives of the Government, development partners and civil society organizations active in the land sector, OHCHR continued actively to advocate for and to support compliance with international human rights standards in the design and implementation of policies and programmes on land, housing and natural resources. 46. OHCHR continued to contribute to the further development of the legal and policy framework regulating the land sector and the management of natural resources. As mentioned above, it participated in consultations on a bill on environmental impact assessments led by the Ministry of the Environment and provided written advice on the harmonization of the final draft with international human rights standards. A national housing policy that focuses on providing adequate housing and tenure security for poor and middle class families, long advocated for by OHCHR, was finally promulgated in June 2014. 47. OHCHR worked to improve women’s participation in public processes and to promote women’s rights to land, tenure security, adequate housing and inter-connected economic, social and cultural rights. In November 2014, OHCHR began to distribute a version in Khmer language of the OHCHR publication entitled “Women and the Right to Adequate Housing”. In December, OHCHR organized a regional workshop on women human rights defenders working on land-related human rights issues, which convened participants from Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand. Also in December, OHCHR organized, together with UNWomen, a consultation on women’s right to adequate housing, attended by female housing rights activists and victims of forced evictions. V. Supporting prison reform 48. The General Department of Prisons of the Ministry of the Interior is the main partner in the OHCHR Prison Reform Support Programme in Cambodia. Through the Programme, OHCHR aims to support prison reform in accordance with international human rights norms and the State’s constitutional guarantees. 49. OHCHR continued to collaborate with core trainers from the General Department of Prisons and the Police Academy of Cambodia to improve the quality of prison staff training. It organized two study visits for core prison staff trainers to five provincial prisons in June 2014 and April 2015. The prisons visited were selected to provide different perspectives to trainers, including from small to medium-sized prisons, with a population of between 250 to 500 prisoners. Through the visits, trainers obtained feedback from prison managers and former trainees on ways to improve future training programmes. In July and August 2014, OHCHR supported the participation of female trainers in the delivery of training to new recruits. In September, it partnered the General Department of Prisons and the Police Academy of Cambodia in organizing a four-day “training of trainers” workshop on a human rights-based approach to prison management. Based on an international handbook on the same subject, previously made available in Khmer by OHCHR, the workshop enabled the 21 trainers to review each chapter of the handbook in small groups to prepare lesson plans and to present them to their peers for feedback and improvement, 11

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