A/HRC/30/20 involvement of all levels of government from the outset helps to ensure their continued engagement through to the implementation phase. The creation of (inter-)ministerial or inter-institutional bodies with a clearly designated lead ministry, which also include NHRIs and civil society, can enhance the capacity for timely action. Ensuring the involvement of the same bodies or processes for consultation and coordination with regard to prevention of human rights, as for implementation of recommendations from human rights mechanisms, can contribute to effectiveness, coherence and consistency. 39. Planning, monitoring and accountability related to the human rights commitments contained in the new post-2015 Agenda will also be key. States have reaffirmed in the final draft of the sustainable development goals that the new post-2015 Agenda would be guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, including full respect for international law; and grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties and other international instruments such as the Declaration on the Right to Development.78 Achieving the effective implementation of the Agenda will depend on the creation of a strong “follow-up and review” framework to ensure that commitments are met.79 IV. Role of international and regional stakeholders in prevention 40. International and regional stakeholders can assist States in identifying and proposing remedial action in relation to gaps or weaknesses in protection, laws, policies and practices, including through the Universal Periodic Review. A. International and regional human rights mechanisms 41. International and regional human rights mechanisms 80 complement and assist national processes for prevention of human rights violations, through external insight and expertise with regard to the situation, laws, policies and practices, drawing on their knowledge of practices and challenges faced by other States. They also encourage interaction and engagement between the State and other stakeholders on human rights issues, and serve to inform the content of rights as their recommendations are often public. The Human Rights Council has recalled its role in the prevention of human rights violations through cooperation and dialogue, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 60/251 (A/HRC/RES/24/16, preamble). While the international system brings a global perspective and universality to human rights protection, regional mechanisms may have a “greater capacity for early detection, and could draw on experience from comparable situations in 78 79 80 14 Final draft of the Post-2015 outcome document dated 8 July 2015, para 10. See also for example, draft goal 16 (“Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels”) which would inter alia seek to strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime; and promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development. “Integrating Human Rights into the Post-2015 Development Agenda - Follow-up and Review: Ensuring Accountability for the SDGs” (OHCHR, May 2015). These include United Nations mechanisms, and those established, for example, by the European Union, Council of Europe, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, African Union, and Organization of American States. See K. Martin-Chenut and S. Turgis in E. Decaux and S. Touzé, La Prévention des Violations des Droits de l’Homme (footnote 3 above); Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, The Prevention of Human Rights Violations, Parts I and II (Athens, The Hague, New York, Martinus Nijhoff, 2001).

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