A/HRC/7/56 page 4 institutions to support their efforts to ensure that laws and their implementation comply with the Cambodian Constitution and treaty obligations; prepare interventions, where necessary, to draw the attention of these authorities to violations or matters of serious concern; works closely with civil society actors involved in economic, social and legal fields and helps protect their ability to operate. It also works closely with other bodies of the United Nations system and other international actors and donors. Each unit takes great care to carefully document and analyse the issues for which it is responsible, in order to verify information and establish facts in an objective manner, so as to prepare a reliable database for the use and action of the Office in its cooperation programmes with the Government, civil society, and interested international actors. 5. The monitoring and protection work of the Office is an integral part of its technical cooperation mandate. This allows it to ensure that technical assistance is relevant both in terms of needs identified by government interlocutors, and of analysis by the Office of human rights issues and priorities in the country. The Office seeks to analyse situations and cases of serious concern in a fair and objective manner, bring them to the attention of the relevant authorities, encourage them to address such situations and cases, and take preventive and/or corrective measures. This cooperation is carried out through direct dialogue with the Government with offers of technical and other assistance to look into the issues and explore ways of working together to help in addressing them. The Office is in the process of redeveloping its technical cooperation programmes based on consultation, joint analysis, joint identification of priorities, and development of appropriate forms of support in a spirit of partnership. Dialogue between the Office and the Government is essential to develop a mutually beneficial cooperation based on trust. The Office does not intend to hold a dialogue with the Government about matters of concern to it via the media. Rather, it favours dialogue and cooperation as the main modes of addressing and resolving issues of concern, in a spirit of mutual respect, understanding and partnership. 6. Since 1993, the Office has been striving to support the efforts of the Government, civil society and the international community to rebuild the rule of law in the country, in line with the Constitution and international human rights treaties obligations. This general objective has been pursued in four interrelated areas: support to the process of drafting legislation to ensure that laws adopted contain the best protective guarantees; support to the rebuilding of institutions critical to the rule of law (courts, legal profession, police); monitoring of the implementation by public authorities of constitutional guarantees and legal rights; and support to the development and protection of civil society. It has continued to promote, and contributed to the protection of, the rights to life, personal security and integrity; and the exercise of freedoms of expression, association and assembly. It has followed closely the work of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes committed during the period of Democratic Kampuchea (ECCC), with a view to importing good practices into the wider judiciary. It has monitored and analysed the management of land and natural resources and its impact on economic, social and cultural rights, in particular the right to property of land, to adequate housing, and indigenous peoples’ rights to land and resources. It has also sought to monitor trends and taken up cases of restriction or violation of the civil and political rights of individuals and groups seeking to uphold rights to land and housing, in particular freedoms of assembly and movement, and the right to an effective remedy and equal protection of the law.