A/HRC/39/39 84. OHCHR participated in intersessional meetings organized by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on the human rights commitments in the outcome document of the thirtieth special session. OHCHR also participated in the general debates of the sixty-first session of the Commission, highlighting human rights issues related to the world drug problem. 115 85. The Council of Europe’s Pompidou Group has initiated work to explore the application of human rights standards and tests as a basis for national and local-led initiatives to incorporate human rights into drug policy development, monitoring and evaluation. This work has resulted in the report entitled “Drug policy and human rights in Europe: managing tensions, maximising complementarities”.116 C. Measuring drug policies from a human rights perspective 86. Ensuring that governments are held responsible for protecting human rights through drug laws, policies and strategies requires tracking data and conducting regular assessments of the human rights situation as it relates to drug control. On several occasions, human rights treaty bodies have recommended that States provide data, statistics and information on issues related to human rights in drug control efforts.117 There is a growing realization that the traditional indicators regarding arrests, seizures and criminal justice responses are inadequate to show the real impact of drug policies on communities. The success of drug control strategies should be measured through an assessment of the impact of drug control efforts in the enjoyment of human rights and other critical aspects such as security, health and socioeconomic development.118 87. States are encouraged to collect up-to-date, comprehensive, disaggregated and transparent data on drug control efforts. The data gathered should be used by States to analyse the impact of drug control efforts on the enjoyment of human rights, and to enhance compliance with international human rights norms and standards in the administration of drug policies. 88. The outcome document of the thirtieth special session recommends that States consider including information, on a voluntary basis, concerning, inter alia, the promotion of human rights, when furnishing information to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs pursuant to the three international drug control conventions and the relevant Commission resolutions.119 OHCHR has developed a set of human rights indicators for the realization of human rights,120 and guidance on a human rights-based approach to data collection in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. 121 Both can provide guidance in strengthening and streamlining existing data-collection and analysis tools in drug control efforts. VII. Conclusions and recommendations 89. The cross-cutting approach of the outcome document of the thirtieth special session of the General Assembly, of 2016, on the world drug problem, constitutes a new and better linkage of the objective of drug control — protection of the health and welfare of humanity — with the key priorities of the United Nations system, including the Sustainable Development Goals. States should make greater efforts to more comprehensively implement the outcome document in accordance with their human rights obligations. 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 See E/2018/28-E/CN.7/2018/13. See https://rm.coe.int/drug-policyandhumanrights-in-europe-eng/1680790e3d. See CEDAW/C/MDV/CO/4-5, CEDAW/C/MKD/CO/4-5, CEDAW/C/ITA/CO/6, CRC/C/KWT/CO/2, CRC/C/MDG/CO/3-4, E/C.12/DEU/CO/5 and E/C.12/MCO/CO/2-3. See https://cdpe.org/measuring_drug_policy_outcomes_intersections_with_human_rights_ and_the_sustainable_development_goals_sdgs/# and the Global Drug Policy Observatory submission. Recommendation 4 (h). See www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Indicators/Pages/documents.aspx. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DataForSustainableDevelopment.aspx. 17