A/HRC/33/24 inequalities. Further efforts are needed to establish methodologies that effectively capture multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and inequality. 62. Reducing preventable maternal mortality and morbidity from a human rights perspective also requires accountability when rights have been violated and access to an effective gender-sensitive remedy. Target 16.3 on rule of law and equal access to justice speaks to an important aspect of accountability, which is often neglected in interventions focused only on the health dimensions of maternal mortality. F. Human rights indicators 63. The importance of identifying appropriate indicators has been mentioned throughout the present section. However, because the indicator framework will play a major role in determining how the targets and goals get interpreted, additional attention must be paid to this important issue. The submission made by the Statistical Commission (E/CN.3/2016/2/Rev.1) represents a commendable effort to embrace the ambitious vision of the 2030 Agenda, including with respect to human rights. Combined with the indicators that have been proposed under the Global Strategy,12 there is a strong basis for measuring State effort and results in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity in accordance with human rights obligations. 64. However, even if adopted in their entirety, those globally identified indicators will not suffice to provide an understanding of whether women and girls are truly enjoying their human rights, especially their sexual and reproductive health rights. Assessing the enjoyment of human rights cannot be reduced to collection of data, no matter how robust the information gathered. Human rights monitoring and documentation methodologies, which include qualitative indicators and context-specific analysis, are critical complementary tools to indicator selection and measurement to enable a fuller understanding of whether States are meeting their human rights obligations. In that regard, it is crucial that analysis of progress on Sustainable Development Goals indicators is considered together with wider human rights reporting, for example, to United Nations treaty bodies and the universal periodic review or through national processes led by national human rights institutions. 65. The Sustainable Development Goals indicator framework should be anchored in human rights standards. The recently adopted general comment No. 22 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights provides an important foundation for understanding the breadth of the issues to be covered. In the annex to the present report, a table is presented laying out proposed indicators with cross-references to the core content of the right to sexual and reproductive health. Some additional indicators, which could be read into existing proposed Sustainable Development Goals and Global Strategy indicators, or could be integrated in national adaptation processes, could include: (a) Existence of discriminatory laws that criminalize or place other barriers to an individual’s access to sexual and reproductive health services, goods and information; (b) Percentage of health-care facilities in a country that offer a minimum package of sexual and reproductive health services; (c) Indicators to assess the availability and quality of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care; 12 Every Woman Every Child, “Indicator and monitoring framework for the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health” (2016). 15

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