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establishment of an independent police complaints body. In Guatemala, OHCHR worked
with the ombudsman to develop a joint study on pretrial detention.
55.
OHCHR provided technical advice and training to law enforcement agencies in Fiji,
Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Sudan (Darfur), Thailand, TimorLeste and Tunisia on the integration of human rights standards into their work, and engaged
in advocacy towards accountability for serious human rights violations committed by
security forces in Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya and Nepal.
56.
Support to strengthen compliance of judicial processes with international human
rights norms and standards was provided to the Ministry of Justice in Mauritania in relation
to the Special Chambers on Slavery, and to judges and prosecutors from Cambodia, Saudi
Arabia and Tunisia. Through the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization
Mission in the Central African Republic, OHCHR continued to support the reestablishment of a national justice system that functioned in accordance with human rights
law.
D.
Integrating human rights in development and the economic sphere
1.
Human rights in development
57.
In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to
Development, OHCHR conducted a series of activities to strengthen the implementation of
the Declaration, including a media campaign, commemorative events and two panels at the
Human Rights Council.
58.
As part of its mandate to mainstream human rights in the United Nations system,
OHCHR supported system-wide dialogue on human rights and the Sustainable
Development Goals as well as the development of new guidance on common country
assessments and United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks. OHCHR and the
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
co-led system-wide efforts to place combating inequality and discrimination at the heart of
support to Member States in their implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development. In addition, OHCHR led efforts to mainstream human rights into United
Nations Development Assistance Frameworks and national development plans in
Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, the Gambia, Iraq, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania,
Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, the Republic of Korea, Tunisia, Ukraine,
Uruguay and the State of Palestine.
59.
OHCHR engaged with national statisticians in Bangladesh, Chile, Finland, Kenya,
Mauritius, the Republic of Korea and Tunisia to strengthen the integration of human rights
standards into statistical indicators. To that end, the Office published a guidance note to
data collection and disaggregation for measuring achievement of the 2030 Agenda. 6
OHCHR also began developing methodology for compiling indicators on specific
Sustainable Development Goals.
60.
The Office made submissions to the social and environmental safeguard review
processes of the Asian Infrastructure Bank, the World Bank and the Dutch Development
Bank, aimed at ensuring that their due diligence and social risk management processes are
consistent with international human rights standards.
6
A Human Rights-Based Approach to Data: Leaving No One Behind in the 2030 Development Agenda.
Available from
www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/HRIndicators/GuidanceNoteonApproachtoData.pdf.
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