A/HRC/7/56 page 16 Disabilities, in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation and the Disability Action Council. The translation was based on a text initially prepared by disabled persons based at the Jesuit Refugee Service in Phnom Penh. The Convention was subsequently published in a bilingual English-Khmer edition, jointly with ILO and UNICEF. 55. In response to Cambodia’s ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Office published the Convention and its Optional Protocol in a bilingual Khmer-English edition, with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to follow in the same format. In a pocket-sized bilingual format, the Office has also published the key United Nations instruments on judges, prosecutors and lawyers, which were distributed widely to members of the legal professions, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 56. In anticipation of the year-long celebration leading up to the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which coincides with the fifteenth anniversary of the promulgation of the Cambodian Constitution, the Office has also prepared in Khmer a compilation of key Cambodian constitutional documents aimed at the protection of human rights, including the core international human rights treaties to which Cambodia is a party. 57. In the light of the recent adoption of several significant bodies of legislation, including the two Codes of Procedure, the Office is in the final stages of preparing a supplement to its well-received fourth edition of the Compilation of Laws in Khmer, which came out in September 2005. Distribution of the fourth edition has been completed and stocks are now limited. However, the Compilation is available on the Office’s website, and includes all recently-adopted legislation. The Office has also collaborated with a group of law students from the Royal University of Law and Economics to produce a CD-Rom version of the Compilation, which includes a full-text search facility. This project, which was undertaken at the initiative of the students themselves, illustrates the value placed on the Compilation itself and the extent to which the younger generation of Cambodians is embracing new digital technologies. 58. The Office has undertaken a revamping of its website in parallel with similar developments on the main OHCHR website. The new website will include a Khmer language version and will provide additional information on the activities of the Cambodia Country Office as well as public documents in English and Khmer relating to the work of OHCHR, the Special Representative, Special Rapporteurs and the treaty bodies and resolutions relevant to Cambodia. II. ASSISTANCE TO THE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CAMBODIA 59. OHCHR in Cambodia is mandated to support the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia, Mr. Yash Ghai, in the discharge of his mandate to assist the Government and people of Cambodia in the promotion and protection of human rights. The Office facilitated the third and fourth missions to Cambodia of the Special Representative in May and December 2007. In May 2007, the Special Representative had the

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