A/HRC/45/56 registered as a legal entity. Thirty other communities have progressed to the third and final step, which involves land measurement, before final approval and the issuance of the land title. OHCHR supported four communities with the first step and three communities with the third step of the process. 52. In December 2019, OHCHR held a training programme on the collective land titling process for local officials from Kampong Thom, Kratie, Mondulkiri, Preah Vihear, Ratanakiri and Stung Treng Provinces. The training was co-organized with the Ministry of Rural Development, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. 53. In February 2020, OHCHR joined an assessment mission by the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction and the NGO Forum on Cambodia on difficulties faced by indigenous communities living in environmentally protected areas. The mission focused on the registration of ancestral land as indigenous communal land. In visits to Kratie and Stung Treng Provinces, OHCHR observed a lack of consistency and of standardized procedures in the allocation of land classified as environmentally protected areas to indigenous communities. C. Situation of ethnic minorities 54. OHCHR continued to address the situation of ethnic minorities, including ethnic Vietnamese, some of whom are stateless. While some progress has been noted in granting residency status for foreigners, OHCHR documented allegations of violations of the rights to a nationality, to education and to family life, as well as to freedom from discrimination. OHCHR translated four administrative regulations24 addressed at immigrants and foreigners from Khmer into English to support the broader advocacy work of civil society organizations, international development actors and other entities working with minorities. Following OHCHR monitoring and advocacy with provincial authorities, and associated recommendations by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, 25 local authorities in Kampong Chhnang Province stopped plans that would have resulted in the forced eviction of approximately 10,000 ethnic Vietnamese living in floating houses on Tonle Sap Lake. On 25 March 2020, OHCHR sent a letter to the Phnom Penh Municipality regarding the planned forced eviction of 42 Khmer and ethnic Vietnamese families from floating communities in Phnom Penh. 55. In August 2019, OHCHR facilitated meetings in Phnom Penh between the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect26 and civil society organizations working on minority issues. Some participants had been involved in case No. 002/02 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, which has entered first instance convictions for genocide against Cham and Vietnamese minorities.27 The meetings gave the Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect an opportunity to learn about the situation of minorities in Cambodia and to assess atrocity-related risks. 56. As highlighted in the Secretary-General’s policy brief on COVID-19 and human rights,28 indigenous peoples and minority communities face particular risks as a 24 25 26 27 28 The directive on the issuance of administrative and civil status letters to Khmer spouses, children and foreign immigrants; the prakas on ceasing to receive applications for foreign immigrants and permanent resident cards; the nationality law, as amended in 2018; and sub-decree No. 129 (of 15 December 2017) on the annulation and revocation of Cambodian irregular administrative documents currently possessed and used by foreign immigrants. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24579&LangID=E. The Office supports the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect. “The [Trial] Chamber found Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan guilty of crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and genocide of the Vietnamese ethnic, national and racial group. The Chamber additionally convicted Nuon Chea of genocide of the Cham ethnic and religious group under the doctrine of superior responsibility.” See www.eccc.gov.kh/en/case/topic/1298. “COVID-19 and human rights: we are all in this together” (April 2020), available at www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un_policy_brief_on_human_rights_and_covid_23_april_2020.pdf. 11