A/HRC/27/43 VII. Supporting engagement with the international human rights mechanisms 62. During the reporting period, OHCHR continued to advocate for the ratification of the International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. OHCHR and UN-Women organized a series of briefings for the interministerial working group responsible for examining the question of ratifying the Convention. The Government agreed in principle to ratify it and accepted three relevant recommendations during the country’s universal periodic review in 2014. 63. On the occasion of World Day against the Death Penalty, OHCHR published an opinion piece welcoming Cambodia’s long-standing moratorium of the death penalty and encouraging the Government to further set an example for the whole region by ratifying the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. On the same day, OHCHR organized a briefing on the topic for government officials from the relevant ministries, jointly with the European Union. 64. The implementation by Cambodia of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was examined by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in October 2013. OHCHR and UN-Women organized a mock session for the Government delegation ahead of the session. After the session, assistance was provided to help disseminate the concluding observations issued by the Committee. In December 2013, OHCHR and UN-Women published a joint opinion piece on the concluding observations. They also organized a workshop with relevant government officials and civil society in order to discuss strategies for the implementation of the concluding observations. 65. OHCHR and UN-Women continued to organize training sessions for NGOs and lawyers on how to submit communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Such training sessions were organized in August 2013 and May 2014. OHCHR also provided advice to individual lawyers who planned to submit communications. 66. Following the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, OHCHR organized in August 2013 a two-day training workshop for the Secretariat of the Disability Action Council on the Convention. Upon a request from that Council, OHCHR delivered another training session focused on reporting under that Convention in November 2013. In that regard, OHCHR translated into Khmer the Committee’s reporting guidelines and its first two general comments. 67. The human rights situation in Cambodia was examined for the second time by the Human Rights Council under the universal periodic review process in January 2014. Ahead of the session in Geneva, OHCHR provided a briefing to the government delegation and briefings to diplomats and to civil society organizations on the process. Recommendations made as part of the universal periodic review process serve as a basis for many activities and points of advocacy for OHCHR and other development partners. For example, through the Technical Working Group on land and housing, the encouragement of the development partners resulted in several recommendations on land and housing rights, which have been reflected in the Government’s National Strategic Development Plan 2014–2018. 68. In March 2014, OHCHR organized a one-day workshop with the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee for civil society organizations on shadow reporting under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The government report under the Covenant is due to be examined by the Human Rights Committee in March 2015. 16