A/HRC/31/3 administration of justice and the prevention of torture. With the advice of the OHCHR Regional Office for the Middle East, the code of conduct of Lebanese internal security forces was updated to integrate recommendations of the Committee against Torture. In July 2015, following OHCHR advice, the Parliament of Mauritania adopted a law criminalizing torture and a law establishing a national preventive mechanism against torture. D. 1. Integrating human rights in development and the economy Human rights in development 63. The Declaration on the Right to Development informed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the new Sustainable Development Goals, which were at the centre of OHCHR development work in 2015. In an open letter dated 27 July, the High Commissioner called upon Member States to ensure that the new agenda was firmly anchored in the international human rights framework. he welcomed that the core objective of the Sustainable Development Goals was to reduce inequalities and realize the human rights of all. 64. OHCHR engaged with Member States in supporting the development of a framework of indicators that was sensitive to human rights and a robust monitoring, review and accountability framework. OHCHR advocated for strategies to implement the 2030 Agenda to be grounded in human rights standards and principles, ensuring not only that “no one is left behind” but also that those “left furthest behind are reached first”. 65. OHCHR undertook preliminary consultations and methodological work to compile global indicators relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals, including through the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators and the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities of the United Nations and other international organizations. In October, OHCHR organized an expert meeting to develop guidance on a human rights-based approach to data and statistics, with a focus on disaggregation and inclusive data collection systems. OHCHR contributed to indicators on migrants, with an initial focus on the rights to health, education and decent work. With OHCHR support, the Government of Paraguay designed human rights indicators related to poverty, economic and social rights and social protection. 66. With regard to financing for development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development , OHCHR advocacy addressed an open letter to all Member States on integrated human rights considerations and on the right-to-development approach. 67. In terms of mainstreaming human rights in the work of the United Nations development system, OHCHR continued to co-chair the human rights working group of the inter-agency United Nations Development Group. OHCHR updated the guidance note on human rights for resident coordinators and United Nations country teams, which provides guidance and practical examples on how resident coordinators and country teams can fulfil their human rights responsibilities, including in the light of the Secretary-General’s Human Rights Up Front initiative. 68. OHCHR engaged in mainstreaming human rights in international institutions that finance development, including the World Bank, with a focus on strengthening the social and environmental safeguard policies underpinning multilateral development banks’ investment lending. 69. OHCHR work on trade focused on a scoping study conducted as part of an ex-ante human rights impact assessment of the Continental Free Trade Area agreement emphasizing agriculture and employment. Based on objective evidence, such assessments 11

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