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Development Goals, thereby giving them integrated and efficient approaches to achieving
the Goals and human rights.
18.
In Paraguay, the online database for following up on the recommendations of the
international human rights mechanisms (known by the acronym SIMORE) was expanded in
December 2017 to link human rights recommendations and the Sustainable Development
Goals and their targets. Additionally, SIMORE Plus has a new feature called OSC-Plus,
through which civil society organizations can monitor the follow-up to each
recommendation and can provide comments and observations — creating the first dialogue
space between the various stakeholders involved in the implementation and monitoring of
recommendations and of the Sustainable Development Goals. SIMORE Plus has given rise
to South-South cooperation, with the system being replicated in a number of countries in
the region (namely Bolivia (Plurinational State of), the Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
Guatemala and Honduras) with the cooperation of the Government of Paraguay and with
technical advice provided by OHCHR. In the Dominican Republic, a similar tool was
launched to facilitate monitoring of the implementation of recommendations, and the
elaboration of periodic reports to the United Nations human rights mechanisms, and to
allow civil society and human rights organizations to monitor the actions undertaken by the
Government to comply with its international obligations. The system is the first of its kind
in the Caribbean.
19.
To highlight how the Sustainable Development Goals and the Convention on the
Rights of the Child complement each other, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
has developed a comprehensive mapping of the Sustainable Development Goals and their
targets against the articles of the Convention.3 The mapping shows the multiple levels of
connection between the two, and how the implementation of the Goals will support the
implementation of child rights. It shows the more obvious links in areas such as health,
education and violence, but also shows that all of the Goals are relevant for children and
their rights, not only the Goals that specifically refer to children. OHCHR has also
produced a mapping of the interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals and
the human rights treaties, and has mapped all the targets within the Sustainable
Development Goals against relevant Universal Declaration of Human Rights provisions;
this is being used to assist Member States in identifying how to ensure that the Goals are
implemented in line with Member States’ human rights obligations.
C.
Use of human rights indicators and data disaggregation
20.
The use of human rights indicators, as well as of disaggregated data, helps unpack
key overarching principles, such as leaving no one behind, and helps measure progress in
the achievement of the Goals. OHCHR has developed guidance tools to support
policymakers, statisticians and data specialists in government agencies, national human
rights institutions, equality bodies and civil society organizations in order to ensure that
respect, protection and fulfilment of human rights materialize in the implementation of the
2030 Agenda.
21.
The Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators,
created under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission, has identified a
robust set of 232 unique indicators to monitor progress in achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals. The indicators were agreed by the Statistical Commission in March
2017 and approved by the General Assembly in July 2017.4 In response to a request by the
Inter-Agency and Expert Group, OHCHR developed a compendium that links the levels of
disaggregation to the grounds of discrimination that are prohibited under international
human rights law. The compendium lists the different population groups or characteristics,
the relevant universally accepted legal standards, and recommendations from the
international human rights mechanisms.5
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Available at www.unicef.org/agenda2030/files/SDG-CRC_mapping_FINAL.pdf.
See General Assembly resolution 71/313.
Available at www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Indicators/Pages/HRIndicatorsIndex.aspx.
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