A/HRC/30/30 recommendations, OHCHR supported the governmental Cambodia Human Rights Committee in translating and publishing the report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (A/HRC/26/16). In November, the Committee and OHCHR convened a national workshop to disseminate the universal periodic review recommendations among relevant entities, including the Parliament, the United Nations country team, development partners and non-governmental organizations. During the workshop, the Committee led a process whereby specific government entities were identified for the implementation of each universal periodic review recommendation accepted by the Government. OHCHR finalized and published in English and Khmer a compilation of the recommendations accepted by Cambodia at the first and second cycles of the universal periodic review, aligning them with all relevant recommendations made by human rights treaty bodies and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia as at July 2014. The compilation was circulated to government partners, United Nations entities and civil society organizations. In May 2015, OHCHR and the Cambodia Human Rights Action Committee, an umbrella non-governmental organization, co-organized a national workshop on the implementation of universal periodic review recommendations. 66. In January 2015, OHCHR supported the final visit by the outgoing Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi. The Special Rapporteur focused on assessing the progress made in strengthening the independence of State institutions, with particular reference to legal and judicial reform. 67. During the period under review, OHCHR continued to promote the ratification of the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, which the Government had agreed, in principle, to ratify at its second universal periodic review, in 2014. In March 2015, OHCHR and UN-Women co-organized a stakeholders’ workshop with the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. Participants included recruitment agencies and civil society organizations working with Cambodian migrant workers. A working group, composed of representatives of the Ministry of Labour, immigration police from the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, UN-Women and OHCHR, met three times in May and June 2015 to review the challenges that might arise after the ratification of the Convention, and to examine domestic legislation and international human rights treaties binding on Cambodia that support ratification. This work will continue in the second half of 2015. 68. The implementation by Cambodia of the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict was reviewed by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in January 2015. The State’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was reviewed in March, in preparation for which OHCHR delivered a number of training activities for groups of stakeholders. As mentioned above, several new publications translated and published in 2015 by OHCHR are products of the treaty bodies, in particular four general comments of particular relevance to Cambodia. 15

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