A/HRC/43/33 87. Second, the repositioning of the United Nations development system and broader United Nations reform efforts offered critical entry points for advancing human rights implementation and countering rising inequalities and climate change. Accelerating implementation of the Goals would require action to be stepped up and account to be taken of human rights. Increased investment to support data disaggregation would be essential in order to formulate evidence-based policies to address the drivers of exclusion and pursue human rights-based transformative economies. 88. The third key area was protecting and expanding civic space and promoting meaningful participation, as the Sustainable Development Goals would not be achieved without stronger civil society engagement and protection. 89. Fourth, data and recommendations from the international human rights mechanisms must be better leveraged. Reporting on the Goals should be linked more effectively with United Nations human rights reviews and reporting through the voluntary national reviews, thus ensuring stronger accountability and efficiencies. The Universal Human Rights Index, under which the recommendations of human rights mechanisms were searchable by Goal, could help with making that link. 90. Fifth, in order to fulfil the promise of the human rights-based implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the Human Rights Council’s engagement with the high-level political forum needed to be further consolidated. The ongoing forum review was an opportunity to strengthen linkages between human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals and provide greater space for civil society and national human rights institutions. 91. The two intersessional meetings had served as important occasions for exchanges on how better to capitalize on the synergies between the realization of human rights and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. She expressed hope that the process would gain momentum – the meetings had already been helpful in building bridges between Geneva and New York – and that the links that had been established between the voluntary national reviews and the universal periodic review, treaty bodies and special procedures would be further consolidated and encouraged.15 III. Conclusions and key messages 92. The meeting reaffirmed the indivisible and mutually reinforcing relationship between human rights and the 2030 Agenda as crucial for ensuring accelerated progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by the end of the decade. 93. Only by respecting, protecting and fulfilling all human rights can the Sustainable Development Goals be achieved for all, leaving no one behind and reaching those furthest behind first. 94. Given that implementation of the 2030 Agenda was currently lagging, during the coming decade of action and delivery, more would need to be done and faster, with specific and targeted action, to accelerate implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the realization of human rights. 95. Growing inequalities demonstrated the need for a special focus on countries and groups of people that were being left behind, including in efforts to tackle the effects of climate change as a matter of global urgency. People who were left behind were often those who were economically, socially and politically marginalized. The meeting therefore reaffirmed the centrality of the pledge to leave no one behind in ensuring delivery on the 2030 Agenda for all. 96. Conflict and insecurity also posed a great challenge to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Greater attention needed to be given to the imperative of human rights-focused prevention and conflict resolution to accelerate delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. 15 See E/C.12/2019/1 and www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/CrosscuttingThematicIssues.aspx. 13