A/HRC/45/51 a more consultative process – in order to guarantee that they comply with the international human rights obligations of Cambodia, and draft a road map for next steps when engaging in legislative drafting and amendments to laws and provide draft language to ensure that all relevant stakeholders can substantively engage in the amendment process; (f) Consider enacting a comprehensive non-discrimination law covering a wide range of grounds for discrimination, including direct and indirect discrimination, and ensure that the law reflects the reality of intersecting grounds of discrimination. Appropriate guidelines should be drafted and circulated to support the implementation of this law; (g) Review the legal framework governing drug treatment and rehabilitation centres to develop clear governance and accountability structures, consider amending the law on drug control to prohibit compulsory drug rehabilitation, allowing it only when approved by a judge and where there are no alternatives to detention, and strengthen and promote effective, consensual and voluntary community-based treatment and rehabilitation; (h) Simplify the procedure for communal land titling, allowing indigenous peoples to gain recognition and claim their land, and protect indigenous peoples from attacks and intimidation by government agents and private companies, as they seek to exercise rights related to their communal lands; (i) Provide guidance to local authorities on the implementation of the Ministry of Interior’s instruction on the issuance of administrative documents and civil certificates to Cambodian spouses and children, and to foreign migrants, ensuring that the Ministry’s instruction is fully implemented throughout the country; (j) Assess its experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and continue working with the World Health Organization and development partners to strengthen the public health system and pandemic preparedness, building on the experiences of 2020; (k) Review and develop economic stimulus packages that respond to the needs of all whose income was adversely impacted by COVID-19, both in the formal and informal sectors, and carefully assess the potential human rights impacts, particularly on the most vulnerable, of planned austerity measures for 2021; (l) Ensure full adherence to the legal framework establishing the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia as an independent and impartial judicial institution, and ensure also that it undertakes full and proper investigations with agreed closing orders, leading to the fullest application of the right to a fair trial, including legal certainty; (m) Ensure timely preparation and submission of overdue reports to treaty bodies; update the common core document; prepare a rolling schedule for timely submissions and continued consultations; and implement recommendations by special procedures, treaty bodies and the universal periodic review; (n) Finalize the implementation plan for recommendations emanating from the universal periodic review, progressively incorporate recommendations from other human rights mechanisms, and consider preparing a comprehensive national action plan for human rights and implementing the National Human Rights Recommendations Tracking Database. 20

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