A/HRC/25/19 45. OHCHR supported long-standing efforts to establish or strengthen independent human rights institutions in Iraq, Liberia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Samoa, South Sudan, Uruguay and many other States. Furthermore, following advocacy and advice from OHCHR, laws were adopted in Kazakhstan and Tunisia for the establishment of a national preventive mechanism. Such a mechanism became operational in Kyrgyzstan following support from my Office. 46. As we move towards the third phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education initiated in 2005, I invite all relevant actors, and in particular Governments, to focus their efforts on comprehensive, effective and sustainable human rights education and training programmes, in particular in the light of the proven effectiveness of human rights education in fostering democratic space. C. Poverty and economic, social and cultural rights 1. Human rights and development 47. The right to development is at the centre of the advocacy of OHCHR for a human rights-based approach to development, for human rights-based policy coherence and a post2015 sustainable development agenda respectful of all human rights. In December, OHCHR launched a landmark publication, Realizing the Right to Development, which reiterates the need for all persons to participate in their own economic, social, cultural and political development and for all human rights and fundamental freedoms to be fully realized. 48. In May 2013, OHCHR launched a guide to human rights measurement and implementation. National stakeholders in more than 20 States drew on the guide and engaged in pioneering work for improving the measurement of the impact of their human rights policies and development programmes. In Mexico, for instance, OHCHR promoted the adoption of human rights indicators for the measurement of the right to a fair trial. The Public Attorney of the Federal District adopted indicators on the rights to life, liberty, security and fair trial. In Ecuador, the Office supported efforts to integrate human rights into national development planning and to develop an inequalities atlas, produced by the National Secretariat for Planning and Development. 49. Since the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, OHCHR has advocated for human rights, including the right to development, to be fully integrated into the debates on and processes of the post-2015 development agenda. The Office has pursued this objective through research, expert meetings, consultations, advocacy and public events with Member States, civil society and other partners. Consequently, in 2013, the human rights component was recognized in key reports and at high-level events, such as the report of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda9 and the global thematic and national consultations reports of the United Nations Development Group. During the high-level panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming held by the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session, the Secretary-General endorsed the recommendation made by the United Nations System Task Team on the Post-2015 Development Agenda that human rights, equality and sustainability should be the three fundamental principles of the post-2015 development agenda. 50. In May 2013, I launched a publication entitled “Who Will Be Accountable? Human Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda”.10 The Office worked on developing 9 10 10 Available from www.un.org/sg/management/pdf/HLP_P2015_Report.pdf. Available from www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/WhoWillBeAccountable.pdf.

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