A/66/44 Cooperation with civil society (31) While noting the State party’s emphasis on working in partnership with NGOs, the Committee is concerned at the lack of information provided as to whether the draft law regulating NGOs might in any way hinder the operation and activities of civil society monitoring groups and thus their capacity to function effectively, including NGOs working to prevent and combat torture and ill-treatment (arts. 2, 11, 12 and 13). The State party should ensure that civil society organizations, including NGOs, are not restricted with respect to their establishment and operations and that they are able to function independently of the Government. In particular, the Committee urges the State party to provide an enabling environment for the establishment and active involvement of NGOs in promoting the implementation of the Convention. Data collection (32) Despite the Committee’s requests for specific statistical information in the list of issues prior to reporting and the oral dialogue with the State party, the Committee regrets that such information was not provided. The absence of comprehensive or disaggregated data on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and illtreatment by law enforcement and prison personnel, trafficking, and domestic and sexual violence severely hampers the identification of many abuses requiring attention (arts. 2, 12, 13 and 19). The State party should compile statistical data relevant to the monitoring of the implementation of the Convention at the national level, disaggregated by gender, age and nationality, as well as information on complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions of cases of torture and ill-treatment, trafficking, and domestic and sexual violence, and outcomes of all such complaints and cases. The State party should, without delay, provide the Committee with the above-mentioned detailed information, including on the number of complaints of torture, assault and other ill-treatment that have been submitted since 2003, the date of the consideration of the previous State party’s report, as well as the number of investigations, prosecutions and convictions arising from such complaints. (33) The Committee recommends that the State party consider making the declarations under articles 21 and 22 of the Convention. (34) The Committee invites the State party to consider ratifying the core United Nations human rights treaties to which it is not yet a party, namely the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. (35) The State party is encouraged to disseminate widely the reports submitted by Cambodia to the Committee and these concluding observations, in appropriate languages, through official websites, the media and NGOs. (36) The Committee requests the State party to provide, within one year, information on its response to the Committee’s recommendations contained in paragraphs 12, 14, 16, 26 and 27. (37) The Committee invites the State party to present its next periodic report in accordance with its reporting guidelines and to observe the page limit of 40 pages for the treaty-specific document. The Committee also invites the State party to submit an updated common core document in accordance with the requirements of the common core document contained in the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human rights treaties (HRI/GEN.2/Rev.6), approved by the Inter-Committee Meeting of the GE.11-45568 31

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