A/HRC/40/34 must enjoy freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of association, and civic space must be protected. 97. United Nations support for Sustainable Development Goal implementation at the country level must be human rights-based. National human rights institutions had a crucial role to play in the delivery of all Sustainable Development Goals, and there was room for their greater engagement. Business, including small and medium-sized enterprises, also had important roles, and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights provided the foundation for human rights-based engagement by business with the 2030 Agenda. 98. Data collection, disaggregation and analysis were very important for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and human rights, particularly for ensuring that the challenges faced by the most vulnerable and marginalized groups are clearly identified and addressed. This need was being met in some countries by partnerships between national human rights institutions and national statistical bodies. 99. An immediate task that emerged from the meeting was how to further enhance the synergies between the Sustainable Development Goals and human rights. Efforts must be made to bridge the gap between the human rights community in Geneva and the development community in New York. Suggestions for doing that included the delivery of strong human rights messages at the high-level political forum on sustainable development to be held in July 2019; ensuring that the programme of the high-level political forum had a space for the presentation of the present summary report; and convening a joint meeting of the Economic and Social Council and the Human Rights Council to explore complementarity between the universal periodic review and the voluntary national review mechanisms. 100. More generally, implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals should increasingly be integrated in the universal periodic review, and the human rights treaty bodies and special procedures should continue to be sensitive to the Sustainable Development Goals. Member States and other stakeholders must make better use of the universal periodic review outcomes and reports of the treaty bodies and the special procedures to guide Sustainable Development Goal implementation planning, followup and reporting, including in the preparation and consideration of voluntary national reviews of the high-level political forum on sustainable development. Finally, it was important that States and other stakeholders continue to share experience and good practices in integrating and aligning the implementation of human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals at the national and international levels. 16

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