A/HRC/33/39 47. In June 2016, OHCHR delivered lectures on torture prevention and on a human rights approach to prison management for 50 new recruits and untrained prison staff, based in part on an international handbook on the subject, previously made available in Khmer by OHCHR, and the recently adopted United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules). 48. The Academy offered a new bachelor’s degree in prison management, available as of early 2016, relying in part on the material, skills and experience developed from OHCHR training. The Office also supported the programme with equipment. 49. OHCHR continued to promote the rights of prisoners to safe drinking water and sanitation and to the highest attainable standard of health by means of advocacy, the provision of hygiene products and water supply for prisoners, and flood prevention materials for two prisons. In cooperation with the provincial health department and national and provincial prison authorities, it financed the securing of two additional hospital rooms in a remote province, allowing sick prisoners to be treated without being chained or handcuffed and without affecting other patients. It will support securing rooms for three more prisons by the end of 2016. When it cannot help directly, OHCHR refers requests to non-governmental organizations and other partners, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as it did, for instance, to provide crutches and prosthetics to prisoners with disabilities. 50. Jointly with ICRC, OHCHR advocated for the finalization of secondary legislation relating to minimum standards of prison construction and renovation. Although the legislation was envisaged in the Law on Prisons (2011), it remains to be developed and adopted as the legal basis for all prisons and subnational authorities involved in the construction, renovation and relocation of prisons. 51. As at mid-March 2016, 33 per cent of prisoners were convicted but being held without a final verdict, either because the cases were pending appeal, the court had not drafted or shared the verdict with the prison, or the documentation had been lost in the system. To help to improve the capacity of prisons to better record and track time limits in all processes affecting prisoners, OHCHR commissioned an expert to improve the prisoner case-management database. Work began in 2015 with a review of the features and shortcomings of the existing database, and continued in 2016 on the design of an improved database, which will be followed by training for prison statistics and registry officers. 52. OHCHR continued to monitor prisons and to engage with the authorities responsible for remedial action in cases of human rights violations, including ill-treatment or excessive detention and corruption. In close cooperation with prison registry officers, OHCHR reviewed the lists of prisoners whose convictions were pending appeal or who, for any other reason, were not in possession of their final judgments. OHCHR directly secured the release of more than a dozen prisoners beyond their prison term, and, indirectly through its non-governmental legal aid partner (see para. 37 above), allowed for the release of 46 additional prisoners. It continued to analyse prison population statistics, disaggregated by gender and age, to support policy discussions. 53. OHCHR continues to pursue the publication of two educational posters on the rights of prisoners and on the visitation process, which were shared with relevant government agencies, namely, the Ministry of the Interior, the Cambodian Human Rights Committee and the Anti-Corruption Unit. 10