A/HRC/30/30 which prompted fruitful, substantive discussions. In October, OHCHR co-organized an end-of-year meeting for the joint General Department of Prisons/Police Academy of Cambodia training team to review progress and to plan for 2015. 50. OHCHR continued to promote the right of prisoners to the highest attainable standard of health through advocacy and support for secured hospital rooms for sick prisoners and improved living conditions in prison. With the cooperation of provincial health departments, non-governmental medical organizations and national and provincial prison authorities, secured rooms were prepared with OHCHR support in four referral hospitals, allowing sick prisoners to be treated without being chained or handcuffed. 51. OHCHR provided material support for additional window openings in a provincial prison to improve light and ventilation inside the cells, and to improve access to water and sanitation in three other prisons. It coordinated with partners the provision of supplies to assist with flood prevention and advocated for minimum prison construction standards in two new prisons in north-western provinces. 52. OHCHR and the General Department of Prisons finalized jointly the design of two educational posters on the rights of prisoners and on family visits, which were being printed at the end of the period under review. OHCHR continued to work closely with prison registry officers to review the lists of prisoners whose convictions were pending appeal or who, for any other reason, were not in possession of their final judgements. The Office supported follow-up with the courts and legal aid organizations to obtain such judgements so that those prisoners could be considered for release. 53. At the end of the period under review, 35 per cent of the prison population had been convicted but had not received their final verdict, either because it was pending appeal, the court had not drafted or shared the verdict with the prison, or the court documents had been lost in the system. In parallel to work on the court database (see para. 10 above), OHCHR reached an agreement with the General Department of Prisons to support efforts to improve the nationwide management of its prisoner files through the prison database, and thereby to reduce excessive pretrial detention, detention pending appeal or detention past the time of release. The current prison database lacks features that would allow the Department clearly to monitor time limits and the legality of detention. An information technology expert has been contracted by OHCHR to review the database, to design the necessary modules and functions, and to install and train registry staff in all prisons in Cambodia in the course of upcoming months. 54. OHCHR continued to monitor prisons and to intervene with the relevant authorities for remedial action in cases of human rights violations, including ill-treatment or excessive detention. It also continued to analyse the statistics on the prison population, disaggregated by gender and age, to support policy discussions. VI. Emerging issues: asylum seekers 55. Since October 2014, small groups of ethnic Jarai Montagnards 6 have been crossing over into the Cambodian province of Ratanakkiri from Viet Nam. Following a considerable 6 12 The term “Montagnards” is a loose designation of some 30 tribes of “mountain people” in the central highlands of Viet Nam, composed of six distinct ethnic groups, including the Jarai. The area inhabited by the Jarai straddles Cambodia and Viet Nam; the Jarai on the Cambodian side are concentrated in the province of Ratanakkiri.