A/HRC/27/70 (c) Reach a detailed agreement with the opposition on the promised reform of the electoral, parliamentary and other institutions responsible for upholding people’s rights, and move to implement them without delay; (d) Fully respect the freedom of expression of all stakeholders in Cambodian society and freedom of peaceful assembly at all times, refrain from suspending them in an arbitrary manner and, in that regard, officially lift the demonstration ban in law and in practice; (e) Immediately bring all perpetrators of violence during demonstrations to justice, including members of the security forces who caused human death and injury, and ensure that adequate reparation is provided to the victims or their survivors; (f) Renew its efforts aimed at legal and judicial reform, especially on improving the independence of the judiciary and its capacity to handle cases in a fair and expeditious manner and, in that regard, embark immediately upon amending the three fundamental laws on the judiciary to that end; (g) Give effect to the right to participate in public life by clearly instructing all the ministries and any other State institutions to organize public consultations on draft laws and to release such drafts publicly, inviting comments from any interested member of the public, prior to submission to the Council of Ministers. That applies in particular to the draft laws reportedly under preparation on associations and nongovernmental organizations and cybercrimes, as well as all other draft laws that carry implications for the enjoyment of human rights; (h) Undertake parliamentary reform, with a view to increasing transparency in the legislative process and ensuring the conformity of all draft laws that have human rights implications with international human rights standards; (i) Ensure that the new mechanism to set the minimum wage takes into consideration the research necessary for evidence-based decision-making and regular revision, in particular setting a wage level sufficient to provide all workers and their families with a decent standard of living, as required by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and to periodically review the national minimum wage so determined; (j) Pursue public administration reform and, in doing so, establish a wage structure to ensure that public servants will be guaranteed adequate remuneration to provide for an adequate standard of living; establish clear performance indicators and accountability mechanisms for all public servants; and establish a programme to more vigorously combat corruption at all levels; (k) Fully respect the trade union rights of all workers in Cambodia and protect trade unionists so that they are able to exercise their activities in a climate free of intimidation and risk to their personal security or their lives; (l) Protect human rights defenders and especially those defending land rights and workers’ rights, so that they may be able to carry out their work without intimidation or harassment; (m) Refrain from using the judiciary to intimidate, harass and imprison human rights defenders and trade union representatives; (n) Immediately resolve the existing disputes relating to land rights as a matter of priority, and ensure in law and in practice that new land concessions are granted only when the rights of the people affected by them are provided for; review all relocation sites to immediately bring them up to human rights standards and prohibit all forced relocations in the future to sites that do not meet those standards; 19

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