A/RES/58/191
Rights in assisting the Government and the people of Cambodia in the promotion
and protection of human rights, 3 the report of the Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia 4 and the use of the United Nations
Trust Fund for a Human Rights Education Programme in Cambodia to finance the
programme of activities of the office in Cambodia, and invites the international
community to consider contributing to the Trust Fund;
Encourages the Government of Cambodia to continue to cooperate with
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the office and other agencies of the United Nations system in their joint efforts to
promote human rights and to implement in full their obligations under international
human rights treaties and instruments;
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The role of non-governmental organizations
Commends the vital role played by non-governmental organizations in
Cambodia, inter alia, in human rights education and training and in the development
of civil society, and encourages the Government of Cambodia to continue to ensure
the protection of those human rights organizations and their members and to
continue to work closely and cooperatively with them;
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Administrative, legislative and judicial reform
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Welcomes the progress achieved by the Government of Cambodia in the
administration of national elections in July 2003, inter alia, in a generally free and
peaceful atmosphere and in improved access for political parties to the public
service media, and urges the Government to investigate fully incidents of
intimidation, violence, killings and vote-buying, to prosecute those responsible, to
strengthen the enforcement capacity and independence of the National Election
Committee and to build on the improvements achieved so as to further consolidate
the process of democratization;
Notes with concern the continued problems relating to the rule of law and
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the functioning of the judiciary resulting from, inter alia, corruption and interference
by the executive with the independence of the judiciary, urges the Government of
Cambodia, as a matter of priority, to expedite the implementation of legal and
judicial reform, including finalization without further delay of the adoption of the
laws and codes that are essential components of the basic legal framework, in
particular a law on the organization and functioning of adjudicate courts, and to
ensure the independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the Supreme Council of
the Magistracy and of the judicial system as a whole;
Welcomes the drafts of the civil code, code of civil procedure, penal
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code, code of criminal procedure, anti-corruption law, law on the status of judges
and prosecutors (statute of magistracy), draft law to amend the Law on the
Organization and Functioning of the Supreme Council of the Magistracy, strategy
for legal and judicial reform and action plan for its implementation, urges the
Government of Cambodia to continue to enhance the training of judges and lawyers
through the Royal School for Training Judges and Prosecutors and the Centre for
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A/58/268.
See A/58/317.