(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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