A/HRC/45/39 I. Introduction 1. In its resolution 35/32, the Human Rights Council requested the Advisory Committee to prepare a study that could help States to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by integrating human rights into national policies on the basis of the compilation prepared by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and to present it within its regular reporting cycle to the Council at its forty-fifth session, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda. 2. At its nineteenth session, the Advisory Committee established a drafting group, currently composed of Milena Costas Trascasas, Ion Diaconu (Rapporteur), Ludovic Hennebel, Ajai Malhotra, Mona Omar, Javier Palummo, Elizabeth Salmon, Dheerujlall Seetulsingh, Changrok Soh (Chair) and Cheikh Tidiane Thiam. 3. In the conduct of the study, the Committee considered the good practices, challenges, lessons learned and recommendations in mainstreaming human rights into national policies to implement the 2030 Agenda compiled in the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) (A/HRC/41/21); the voluntary national reviews synthesis report on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda by Member States for 2018; the note by the Secretariat on reports of the regional forums on sustainable development (E/HLPF/2019/3); the report of the Secretary-General on progress in implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals for 2019; the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on local government and human rights (A/HRC/42/22); the report of the Secretary-General on empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality (E/2019/65); the report of the Secretary-General on the longterm impact of current trends in the economic, social and environmental areas on the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (E/2019/66); and the political declaration of the high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the General Assembly (Assembly resolution 74/4, annex). 4. The Advisory Committee also discussed the topic at its thirty-eighth to forty-third sessions, received input from OHCHR and posted a preliminary outline of the study on the web page of the Committee. Members of the Committee also attended high-level meetings organized by the Economic and Social Council at its 2018 and 2019 sessions and presented the work of the Committee on the topic. II. Evaluation of activities in support of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 5. The 2030 Agenda provides a visionary road map for all countries and stakeholders to strive for a world of sustainable prosperity, social inclusion and equality, while preserving the planet and leaving no one behind. 6. The 2030 Agenda is grounded in the international human rights instruments and is devoted to the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, and the right to development throughout the world. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets are aimed at realizing the human rights of all people in all countries, both developed and developing; they must be implemented in accordance with international law and with the commitment to leave no one behind. In its resolution 35/32, the Human Rights Council recommended that Member States integrate into their national policies a human rights perspective aimed at the promotion, protection and full realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms and take into consideration the views of civil society in the process. The implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals requires the taking of a human rights-based approach locally, nationally, regionally and globally. 1 1 Statement made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the high-level panel meeting held on 16 July 2019. 3