A/HRC/20/4 D. Work with United Nations human rights bodies 34. OHCHR continued its support to the Human Rights Council to advance its normative work on economic, social and cultural rights, including through the Council’s initiative to develop a United Nations declaration on human rights education and training. 7 Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 13/15, OHCHR provided secretariat services to the Council’s open-ended working group which met in Geneva from 10 to 14 January 2011 in order to finalize the draft declaration. The United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Education and Training was subsequently adopted by the Council 8 and by the General Assembly.9 It is the first United Nations instrument exclusively devoted to human rights education and training. 35. The High Commissioner’s annual report to the Economic and Social Council, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 48/141, focused last year on the use of indicators and benchmarks in the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights and highlighted recent practices and methods developed at national and international levels.10 Building on the conceptual and methodological framework for human rights indicators developed by OHCHR and the United Nations treaty bodies, the report addressed the rationale for their use in monitoring economic, social and cultural rights and proposed ways in which to advance the ongoing work in this area. The report recommends, among other things, that initiatives taken to integrate human rights indicators into national development or human rights plans and policies be supported and followed through, so that selected indicators are actually used in monitoring the implementation of plans and policies. It notes that the selection of indicators and the collection of data can be improved by giving greater attention to participatory processes and partnerships involving government agencies, statistical organizations, human rights institutions and civil society at country level and that such an inclusive process will facilitate the selection of contextually relevant indicators, the disaggregation of statistical information, and data collection efforts that are more sensitive to human rights. 36. Millions around the world live in life- and health-threatening housing conditions, in overcrowded slums, and threatened to be forcibly evicted from their homes leaving them homeless, landless and in further poverty and marginalization. Forced eviction has been recognized by the international community as a gross violation of human rights and of the right to adequate housing in particular. Each year, OHCHR receives hundreds of complaints from individuals and communities on unjustified evictions that take place with no regards to human dignity and with little or no due process on the ways they are decided and conducted. To combat this phenomenon, the Office has continued its work to protect the victims, including by ensuring access to fair complaints procedures and due process requirements, and to mitigate their effects by ensuring access to adequate relocation and compensation. In 2011, OHCHR and UN-Habitat collaborated on the drafting of a report entitled “Losing your home: Assessing the impact of eviction”, which has now been published. Through its review of a number of eviction impact assessment methodologies, the report demonstrates how the human and social costs of evictions and displacements are grossly underestimated. 7 8 9 10 10 See www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/UNDHREducationTraining.htm. Council resolution 16/1 of 23 March 2011. General Assembly resolution 66/137 of 19 December 2011. E/2011/90 of 26 April 2011.