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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.
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