A/HRC/27/41 D. Measures to improve access to justice and basic services Senegal: strengthening gender equality by reviewing the nationality law 56. The OHCHR Regional Office for West Africa provided technical advice for the drafting of a new nationality code, based on recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, with a view to ending the differential treatment of men and women with regard to the transmission of nationality through marriage, childbirth and adoption. 57. In collaboration with the non-governmental organization, Association of Senegalese Women Jurists, OHCHR provided technical assistance for the harmonization of the Family Code with international human rights standards, which resulted in the drafting of a compendium of national laws to be harmonized, based on the recommendations of international human rights mechanisms. Cambodia: strengthening a rule-of-law culture 58. Since 2012, OHCHR-Cambodia has been providing technical support to the Ministry of Justice in organizing a series of judicial round tables to create opportunities for staff of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to share their experience with fellow judges, prosecutors and lawyers in the provinces. One of the topics discussed at every judicial round table has been pretrial detention. Those discussions led the Ministry of Justice to undertake reform of the pretrial detention process and align the practice of Cambodian national courts with that of ECCC by introducing the requirement that judges must provide detailed reasoning in decisions to detain. That was one of the most successful examples of transfer of good practice from ECCC to the domestic system so far. 59. In 2013, OHCHR launched the first-ever Cambodia-based course for lawyers on the right to a fair trial. The Fair Trial Rights Academy, organized at the Cambodian Lawyers Training Centre in cooperation with the Bar Association, is a three-month course featuring interactive activities, field trips and guest lectures by national and international experts on the Cambodian criminal justice system, including from ECCC, various Cambodian nongovernmental organizations and OHCHR. The course is aimed at improving the knowledge of and commitment to fair trial rights of future lawyers; strengthening their relevant legal skills; integrating a new human rights and fair trial rights module into the Lawyers Training Centre programme; and enhancing networking between future lawyers and current practitioners. The Bar Association and OHCHR also continue to co-host the Legal Dialogues Series, an annual programme of interactive workshops which focus on strengthening the quality of legal services. Sessions are developed by the Bar Association, in cooperation with OHCHR, and facilitated by senior national and international ECCC defence and civil party lawyers. 60. In March 2014, to promote the jurisprudence legacy of ECCC, OHCHR launched the Annotated Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure, which was published with support from the British Embassy in Phnom Penh and the United States Agency for International Development. The result of a three-year research project undertaken by several legal teams from around the world and coordinated by OHCHR-Cambodia, it is the first publication in recent Cambodian history annotating a law with relevant national and international jurisprudence. It constitutes an indispensable tool for legal practitioners and for anyone interested in knowing how the law is applied in practice. 61. The ECCC legacy activities are being developed and implemented largely to ensure the promotion of a culture of the rule of law and human rights, using ECCC as an example of best practice. 12

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