A/HRC/41/21 (d) The principle of transparency is related to the right to seek, receive and impart information, enshrined in international human rights law. Ensuring transparency implies access by civil society to data on the monitoring and realization of human rights. (e) In their capacity as duty bearers, State institutions have a duty to be accountable and ensure that they respect, protect and fulfil human rights in their conduct of statistical work. This includes ensuring the independence of statistical data gathering. (f) Access to information must be balanced with the right to privacy. Data collected for statistical purposes must be strictly confidential.6 9. Numerous States have also approached OHCHR for technical support on the development and use of human rights indicators to support them in measuring progress and results. In Mexico, OHCHR supported the development of human rights indicators to measure progress made by the judiciary in the protection of a number of rights – particularly those relating to health, fair trial, life, and liberty and security of person, and the human rights of prisoners. Moreover, in Mexico City, the Ministry of Public Security and the Sub-Secretary of the Penitentiary System have developed an accountability framework for the police based on a set of human rights indicators on the rights to life, liberty, security, personal integrity and prohibition of torture. 10. In Paraguay, the Secretariat for Social Action, with the active participation of civil society actors, has designed a set of human rights indicators related to poverty, economic, social and cultural rights, and social protection, including for persons with disabilities. These have been linked to both the Sustainable Development Goals and the social programmes implemented by the Secretariat. 11. In the Plurinational State of Bolivia, an online system to track and monitor human rights recommendations is now connected to a web page with over 400 qualitative human rights indicators, covering nine prioritized areas: (a) food; (b) education: (c) health; (d) housing; (e) work; (f) women’s right to a life free from violence; (g) water and sanitation; (h) the right to a life free from trafficking and smuggling; and (i) access to justice and a fair trial. The indicators were developed mainly by the Ministry of Justice and the National Institute for Statistics, and OHCHR. 12. In Kenya, OHCHR supported the National Bureau of Statistics and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights for the development of indicators on albinism and self-identification of indigenous peoples. A memorandum of understanding, signed on 26 July 2017, ensures that statistical and human rights work will combine to guide the nation’s efforts in implementing the 2030 Agenda. This will help ensure focused policy interventions. 13. In Uganda, following training by OHCHR on human rights indicators and a human rights-based approach to data, members of the national task force on the Sustainable Development Goals and its technical working groups analysed which groups might constitute those “left behind”. Efforts are under way to advance on the adoption of a memorandum of understanding between the Office of the Prime Minister, the Uganda Human Rights Commission, the National Planning Authority and the Uganda Bureau of Statistics to reach a common understanding on the list of the groups considered left behind. These measures would help advance the development of indicators for inclusion in the country’s Sustainable Development Goals framework to increase impact on policies and programmes. 14. In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in coordination with the authorities, OHCHR developed a comprehensive and detailed indicator framework in relation to the right to liberty and security of person. 15. In line with a 2017 recommendation from the universal periodic review, OHCHR has worked with the Movement of Indigenous Women, in Guatemala, to strengthen its 6 4 Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, “Voluntary national reviews: synthesis report” (November 2017), available at http://bit.ly/2hlPMN0.