A/HRC/34/25 The Committee recommends that the State party take fully into account its obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and ensure the full enjoyment of these rights enshrined therein in the implementation of the 2030 [Agenda for Sustainable Development] at the national level, with the support of international assistance and cooperation when needed. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals would be significantly facilitated by the State party establishing independent mechanisms to monitor progress, and by treating beneficiaries of public programmes as rights-holders who can claim entitlements. Implementing the Goals on the basis of the principles of participation, accountability and non-discrimination would ensure that no one is left behind in the process. 43. Similarly, the Committee on the Rights of the Child has begun to link the Sustainable Development Goals to the rights contained in the Convention on the Rights of the Child in its concluding observations. This has also assisted the United Nations in its work at the country level, including for the elaboration of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework. The Sustainable Development Goals will be at the core of the Committee's work with UNICEF in the creation of a specific working group on follow-up to and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals related to children’s rights. 44. Several special procedure mandate holders have been actively engaged in the process for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals through joint advocacy, thematic studies and developing partnership with United Nations entities to integrate human rights in Goal implementation efforts. For example, as a member of the task force on monitoring inequalities in access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene for the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda led by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, the Special Rapporteur on the right to water and sanitation is working closely with relevant United Nations entities to integrate the human rights to water and sanitation in monitoring and implementing the water and sanitation targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. 45. The Working Group on the Right to Development has also been seized with the 2030 Agenda in the context of the right to development. In its report on its seventeenth session (A/HRC/33/45), the Working Group recommended that, in its future deliberations, it should study the contributions of States to the implementation of the right to development, at the national, regional and international levels, in keeping with the mechanisms relating to the Sustainable Development Goals. It also recommended that OHCHR consider facilitating the participation of experts in the eighteenth session of the Working Group to provide advice, with a view to contribute to the discussion on the implementation and realization of the right to development and on relevant implications of the 2030 Agenda. 46. The Human Rights Council has emphasized the importance of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in a large number of its resolutions. The Council has also requested OHCHR and special procedure mandate holders to place a particular emphasis on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in their reports. In February 2016, the Council devoted its annual high-level panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming to the theme of the 2030 Agenda and human rights, with an emphasis on the right to development. The discussion provided an opportunity to further explore the substantive links between the Goals and all human rights, including the right to development. At the discussion, the need to consider possible modalities to strengthen exchanges between the Council and the high-level political forum as part of the follow-up and review mechanism was highlighted. 47. In this regard, the universal periodic Review, which is based upon the principles of universality, interdependence, indivisibility and interrelatedness of human rights, has been 11