A/HRC/41/17 77. Uruguay commended the measures taken to eliminate child labour and violence against women and girls. It urged the State to continue action to prevent violence and sexual abuse, including rape, and to promote effective complaints mechanisms and physical and psychological care for victims. 78. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela noted the sustained economic growth and reduction in poverty. It also noted the strategic health plan for 2016–2020, the law on the eradication of trafficking in persons and sexual exploitation, universal primary education and the progress made in establishing a national human rights institution in accordance with the Paris Principles. 79. The delegation of Cambodia pointed out that the Cambodian Human Rights Committee was a central body that had been established to coordinate with other ministries and stakeholders when compiling reports for the treaty bodies and to monitor the implementation of recommendation made by those treaty bodies and the special procedures. The Government had issued a subdecree on 18 December 2017 establishing an interministerial working group, comprising all relevant governmental agencies for better coordination when preparing reports. 80. The Ministry of Information had led and collaborated with the Embassy of Sweden and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on the drafting of a law on access to information. The drafting process had been undertaken through the establishment of a joint technical working group consisting of State institutions, United Nations agencies, civil society organizations, professional media experts, academia, researchers and development partners. The Government was committed to completing the draft law on the right of access to information together with other two important laws: the cybercrime law and the amendment to the law on the press. 81. The Government had a plan to promote gender equality and sexuality education in order to eliminate discrimination and gender-based violence, including by mainstreaming gender equality into the policy framework and the national development plan, reducing the gender gap in education, promoting vocational training and women’s entrepreneurship initiatives, combating domestic violence and the sexual abuse of women and children, uplifting social morality, women’s dignity and the Cambodian family, improving legal services for women and children and implementing the social protection policy framework for 2016–2025. 82. Even though there was no policy or legal framework governing the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the Government had taken action to eliminate discrimination against that community by organizing public awareness campaigns, disseminated via the media and in the context of formal and informal education. While civil law still did not recognize the legitimacy of homosexual marriage and registration, it did not actually criminalize such marriage and practices. Homosexual marriage was in fact very common in Cambodian society, in traditional and cultural practices. Approximately 1,000 same-sex couple had already married with a traditional party and ceremony. 83. National reconciliation was subject to a genuine commitment by all parties concerned to prioritize national interest, without taking orders from foreign powers. The current actions taken by Cambodia against Kem Sokha and institutions that had committed treason and conspiracy were the only legitimate way to protect peace and democracy under the rule of law. Acts of treason, espionage and conspiracy with a foreign power that advocated the overthrow of a legitimate Government were subject to severe punishment under the law of all countries, and Cambodia was no exception. The State regretted, however, that the only legitimate action possible for a sovereign State had been politicized under the banner of “human rights and democracy” because of the geopolitical interests of other States. 84. Cambodia was a paradise for non-governmental organizations. With a total population of only 15 million people, Cambodia, surprisingly, was home to almost 6,000 registered local and international associations and non-governmental organizations and more than 4,000 trade unions, proportionally impressive when compared with other countries in the region. Since the introduction of the law on associations and nongovernmental organizations, 509 local associations and 400 local non-governmental 8