A/HRC/RES/40/12 11. Acknowledges that social protection floors may facilitate the enjoyment of human rights, including the rights to social security, the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, clothing and housing, education and safe drinking water and sanitation, in accordance with the human rights obligations of States, and in this regard underlines the importance of acting consistently with the principles of non-discrimination, transparency, participation and accountability; 12. Underlines the importance of developing human rights training and education, which can help to build societies that respect dignity, equality, inclusion, integrity, diversity and the rule of law; 13. Encourages the use of international human rights standards and the analysis and recommendations of the human rights bodies and mechanisms to identify who is being left behind, marginalized or discriminated against in each country context and the root causes, including multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, as well as the measures necessary to combat discrimination and inequalities; 14. Calls upon States: (a) To promote the use of human rights indicators to measure progress in the implementation of laws, policies and actions to address discrimination and inequalities; (b) To identify patterns of discrimination in law, policies and practices, and to address entrenched structural barriers and unequal power relations that generate and perpetuate inequality over generations; (c) To strengthen the role and capacity of national human rights institutions in accordance with the principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights (the Paris Principles) and of equality bodies, to protect civic space and to contribute to providing support for stakeholders in the identification of appropriate solutions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals at the national and local levels; 15. Notes with appreciation the work carried out by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to assist States parties in fulfilling their obligations, including through the elaboration of general comments, the consideration of periodic reports and, for States parties to the Optional Protocol to the Covenant, the examination of individual communications; 16. Also notes with appreciation the work of other relevant treaty bodies and special procedures in the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights within their respective mandates; 17. Encourages enhanced cooperation and increased coordination between the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other human rights treaty bodies, United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and programmes and mechanisms of the Human Rights Council whose activities have a bearing on economic, social and cultural rights, in a manner that respects their distinctive mandates and promotes their policies, programmes and projects; 18. Recognizes and encourages the important contributions of regional organizations, national human rights institutions and civil society, including nongovernmental organizations, academic and research institutions, business enterprises and trade unions, to the question of the realization and enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, including training and information activities; 19. Welcomes the activities carried out by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the promotion of economic, social and cultural rights, mainly through technical cooperation, the work of its field offices, its relevant reports to United Nations bodies, the development of in-house expertise, including on human rights indicators, and its publications, studies, training and information activities on related issues, including through new information technologies; 4