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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.
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