A/HRC/34/24
18.
Ms. Zúñiga stated that SIDERECHOS was a semi-public, user-friendly web
platform managed mainly by the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Worship, but
which benefited from input by other public institutions, especially those directly involved in
specific topics of interest, such as the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labour or the
Ministry of the Environment, which feed into the database. The platform was designed for a
wide range of users, including civil servants, teachers, students, NGOs, human rights
defenders, lawyers and journalists.
19.
SIDERECHOS comprises four sections: (a) a search engine for constitutional and
international standards applicable to each of the 73 rights guaranteed in the Constitution
(search by right and/or keyword); (b) a list of the reports submitted by the State to United
Nations treaty bodies since 1971, with concluding observations and alternative reports for
each review period, the judgments issued by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
with respect to Ecuador and the implementation reports submitted to the Court by the State;
(c) a platform dedicated to the drafting of official reports relating to the United Nations
human rights treaties, in which a data processor automatically shares information among
the State institutions responsible for the drafting of such reports and generates a first draft
compiling all the information collected; and (d) a table for follow-up to recommendations
that facilitates the systematic monitoring of the implementation of the recommendations
from the universal periodic review, treaty bodies and special procedures, which enables the
Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and Worship to share the recommendations made by the
aforementioned mechanisms with, and request information on their implementation from,
the relevant institutions, as well as prepare an updated report on the status of their
implementation.
20.
Ms. Zúñiga indicated that SIDERECHOS had so far only been used for preparing
reports to be submitted to the treaty bodies and that the preparation of the report for the
third universal periodic review of Ecuador would be the main test of its functioning. She
felt that it would eventually become an ideal tool in the framework of this mechanism as it
has the capacity to analyse the status of a given situation, the feasibility of the measures to
be taken, and the regulations and other instruments through which the recommendations
will be implemented. The system can point directly to the aspects of the recommendation
on which the implementation should focus. An additional value is that the status of
compliance can be recorded and it indicates pending tasks, whether the recommendation
has already been implemented and any subsequent measures to be adopted for
implementation. This information makes it possible to carry out quantitative analyses on the
level of compliance, as well as on the difficulties, challenges and needs relating to the full
implementation of the recommendations.
21.
Finally, Ms. Zúñiga stated that the main lesson learned by Ecuador from this process
was that a national human rights information system, despite being an ambitious and
medium-term process, constituted a solid methodological basis for developing human rights
indicators. It also helped to make the information available to a wide variety of users,
thereby fostering the notion of shared responsibility for the full observance of human rights
among the entire population.
B.
Intervention by Juan Miguel Gonzalez Bibolini, Minister and DirectorGeneral for Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paraguay
22.
Mr. Bibolini stated that the report for the first universal periodic review of Paraguay
was prepared by the main inter-institutional mechanism for the promotion and protection of
human rights — the human rights network at the executive level —, which was created in
2009 and is composed of 23 national entities, with the participation of the legislative and
judicial branches, as well as civil society, which the Government sees as fundamental. This
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