A/HRC/44/28 persons and ethnic peoples. It also cooperated with the Counsel General concerning the situation of the indigenous peoples of Putumayo, who are at risk of physical and cultural extermination. It advised the Attorney General, the Counsel General and the Ombudsperson on taking a human rights-based approach to corruption. In partnership with the Presidential Council, OHCHR contributed to the national human rights action plan. It supported the Ministry of Mines and Energy to implement the sector’s human rights policy, and helped businesses such as Ecopetrol, Nestlé, Empresas Públicas de Medellín and Amerisur to increase human rights capacity in their operations. OHCHR supported the national land agency to incorporate international standards in rural reform, notably the right to land and territory of farmer and ethnic communities. The Office provided assistance concerning social dialogue, ethnic affairs and access to land, including on the Nukak Maku people of Guaviare and the Barí people of Catatumbo. It supported a partnership among the ministries of the environment and of agriculture and the World Wide Fund for Nature to develop the land use and management plan for the territory of the Alto Mira y Frontera community council. OHCHR supported government authorities of Afro-descendent communities with a view to protecting their territorial rights and the quality of the environment in regions where there are conflicts as a result of land dispossession and contamination by agroindustry megaprojects. It also supported community council authorities of black communities in northern Cauca. The human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine collaborated with the Council of Europe, the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the European Union Advisory Mission. This helped to multiply the effects of its own advocacy and to prepare tools for improved monitoring. The mission reinforced its advocacy through cooperation with embassies and consulted with civil society organizations on emerging trends and challenges. 2. Integrating human rights into national policies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals As the Secretary-General has said, “when we take a human rights-based approach to development, the outcomes are more sustainable, powerful and effective. This is why human rights permeate the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are underpinned by economic, civil, cultural, political and social rights, as well as the right to development” (“The highest aspiration”, p. 4). In mainstreaming human rights in efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals, OHCHR worked with resident coordinators, United Nations country teams, Member States and civil society in Argentina, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Liberia, Maldives, Montenegro, Nepal, South Africa, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay and Zimbabwe. It provided support on using the interlinkages between the 2030 Agenda and human rights to implement the Sustainable Development Goals and at the same time advance human rights, including within common country analysis and United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework processes. The Office provided guidance on integrating human rights in the voluntary national reviews to all 51 countries that have signed up for the review in 2020 and responded to several requests for technical cooperation in this regard.9 OHCHR and the human rights mechanisms engaged with the 2019 high-level political forum on sustainable development, preparatory expert group meetings and regional forums, provided inputs to the 2020 high-level political forum on sustainable development and engaged in the 2020 Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, with further engagement envisaged as the 2020 high-level political forum preparations advance. OHCHR developed tools, including information management systems for recommendations and human rights indicators to support national efforts. The Universal Human Rights Index, a web-based database designed to facilitate access to recommendations issued by the human rights mechanisms, has become a very useful tool to 9 See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/SDGS/Pages/2020VoluntaryNationalReviews.aspx. 9