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Liberia and Mexico. Finally, a growing number of Government agencies and national
human rights institutions, including in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Kenya, Kosovo
(Serbia) and Nepal, have worked on developing the use of human rights indicators.
4.
Economic, social and cultural rights
60.
OHCHR has pursued the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights and has
continued to strengthen its capacity to contribute to the protection and monitoring of these
rights at the national and international levels, including through cooperation with United
Nations system partners. OHCHR has developed tools and training materials, and trained
its staff on strategies and skills to monitor implementation of these rights. OHCHR
provided technical assistance and support to Governments, parliaments, country teams and
civil society on the rights to adequate housing, adequate food, and health, and on the legal
and judicial protection of economic, social and cultural rights. OHCHR supported the
ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights in Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Cape Verde, Costa Rica and
El Salvador. Further, in collaboration with civil society partners, OHCHR organized a
consultation on women and economic, social and cultural rights, focusing on the main
challenges to the equal enjoyment of these rights by women.
61.
The Office developed a forced eviction assessment questionnaire and, jointly with
UN-Habitat, published a report on assessing the impact of evictions. OHCHR also
produced materials, including a training module on economic, social and cultural rights for
judiciary schools in Western Africa, a user’s guide on indicators to monitor economic,
social and cultural rights in Nepal, publications on the Optional Protocol to the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and on indicators on the
right to health in Mexico.
62.
OHCHR produced reports on the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights
in all countries, maternal mortality, the use of indicators for economic, social and cultural
rights, and cultural diversity and human rights.
5.
Human rights and the economic, food and climate crises
63.
With regard to the global food crisis, OHCHR participated in the High-level Task
Force on the Global Food Security Crisis and contributed to common advocacy in key
international conferences and policy debates on food and nutrition security. OHCHR
provided technical assistance for the development of the voluntary guidelines on the
responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national
food security in order to ensure consistency of the guidelines with international human
rights law.
64.
On the margins of the eighteenth session of the Human Rights Council, OHCHR
organized a side-event entitled “The crisis in the Horn of Africa: promoting a human rightsbased approach”, which event sought to provide a human rights analysis of the crisis and,
on that basis, to promote an emergency response and medium- and long-term strategies
anchored in human rights.
65.
The importance of considering the human rights implications of climate changerelated effects and the need to consider human rights in the formulation of environmental
policies was emphasized by OHCHR in a number of public statements, including during
side events to Council sessions.
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