A/HRC/31/31 67. Human rights measurement should not be seen as a top-down exercise. Rights holders and civil society actors must be able to provide their own data and develop their own measurement tools to hold States accountable. 68. The measurement of human rights requires capacity-building, exchange of practices and partnership between entities that have traditionally not worked together, such as official statistics bureaus, civil society organizations and human rights institutions. 69. Human rights measurements and indicators should be systematically used in the context of State interaction with international human rights mechanisms, including the treaty bodies and the universal periodic review. This will improve the basis for an objective and constructive dialogue on the evaluation and evolution of human rights at the national level. In this context, the OHCHR framework for human rights indicators, which has been recommended by international human rights mechanisms, is a key tool.50 50 An increasing number of States and national stakeholders have requested OHCHR support for capacity-building activities and technical support in this field, including Albania, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Guatemala, Morocco, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Tajikistan, Togo, Tunisia, the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. 19

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