A/HRC/42/60 I. Introduction 1. During the year under review (June 2018–June 2019), the Special Rapporteur continued to monitor the situation of human rights in Cambodia, receiving information from different stakeholders, including the Government, civil society organizations, United Nations agencies and private citizens. The Special Rapporteur undertook two missions to Cambodia, from 29 October to 8 November 2018 and from 29 April to 9 May 2019. In the present report she draws on these missions as well as other information received throughout the year. 2. The Special Rapporteur records her appreciation of the full cooperation she has received from the Government. 3. During her missions, the Special Rapporteur met with government representatives and other stakeholders, including civil society organizations, the United Nations country team and development partners. She met with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Finance, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, the Senior Minister and Minister of Planning, along with the DirectorGeneral of the National Institute of Statistics, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Information, the Minister of Health, the Minister of the Environment, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Minister of Social Affairs Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation, the Governor of Phnom Penh, the President of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee, the Deputy President of the Anti-Corruption Unit, the Secretary-General of the National Authority for Combating Drugs and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia. She also met with a wide range of relevant stakeholders, including representatives of political parties. 4. It was regrettable that the Special Rapporteur was again denied confidential interviews with detainees, in particular Kem Sokha, formerly a key political party leader, who remains detained at his home under restrictive judicial supervision. She was however able to undertake an unannounced visit to the Phnom Penh Social Affairs Transit Centre (Prey Speu), and received invitations for future on-the-spot visits to drug treatment centres. The Special Rapporteur reiterates that she should be able to visit any place of detention and meet with anyone in detention as part of discharging her mandate. II. Recent developments A. Political rights 5. This section provides an update of the issues raised in the addendum to the report of the Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council in 2018 (A/HRC/39/73/Add.1). There has been little change with respect to issues related to political rights in Cambodia. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party won all 125 seats in the National Assembly and overwhelmingly controls the Senate (ibid., para. 81). The Cambodia National Rescue Party remains dissolved with all the positions of its commune chiefs and almost all the positions of its commune councillors transferred to unelected members of the Cambodian People’s Party, which thus holds over 95 per cent of seats at the commune level. This effectively denies the exercise of the right to vote of around 44 per cent of the voting population who voted for the Cambodia National Rescue Party during the 2017 commune elections. The provincial, municipal and district council elections took place in May 2019. They are indirect elections, voted for by commune councillors. The National Election Committee announced on 8 June that the Cambodian People’s Party had won 98 per cent of all seats; three other parties secured 80 of the 4,114 seats. 6. On 6 September 2018, a Supreme Consultative Council, comprising representatives of the unsuccessful political parties who contested the national elections, was established by 3