(a)
The efforts and progress made by the Government of Cambodia in
promoting legal and judicial reform under the leadership of the Council of Legal and
Judicial Reform, including adopting and/or enforcing basic laws such as the civil
procedure code, the criminal procedure code and the civil code;
(b)
The efforts made by the Government of Cambodia in combating
corruption, including the drafting of an anti-corruption law and efforts to bring corrupt
officials to justice;
(c)
The efforts made by the Government of Cambodia in combating
trafficking in persons, including the creation of a national anti-trafficking task force in
April 2007, increased law enforcement action against traffickers and complicit
officials, and the promulgation of a new law on the suppression of human trafficking
and commercial sexual exploitation in February 2008;
(d)
The efforts made by the Government of Cambodia to resolve land
issues through the implementation of land reform, in particular through the successful
expansion of land demarcation and titling programmes;
(e)
The commitment of the Government of Cambodia to adhere to and
implement the international human rights conventions, inter alia, the one made by
Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen on the occasion of the opening of the eighth
informal Asia-Europe Meeting seminar on human rights, held in Siem Reap in
September 2007, which included reference to the planned establishment of a national
human rights institution;
(f)
The efforts made by the Cambodian Human Rights Committee,
especially in resolving complaints from people, improving the situation of prisons and
intervening in prolonged pretrial detentions;
(g)
The adherence by the Government of Cambodia to international human
rights treaties, including the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention
against Torture, in March 2007, the accession to the United Nations Convention
against Corruption, in September 2007, and the signing of the Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol, in October 2007;
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