A/HRC/17/24 family reunion. In March 2010, OHCHR supported and participated in the Global Consultation on Migrants’ Health organized by WHO and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Madrid, Spain. 6. In relation to the food crisis, OHCHR actively participated in the Secretary– General’s High–Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis. In particular, OHCHR contributed to updating the Comprehensive Framework for Action, as a common strategic framework for United Nations agencies, international financial institutions and the World Trade Organization (WTO). The Updated Comprehensive Framework for Action (UCFA) recognizes the right to food and the human rights-based approach as strategic entry points for addressing world food security and nutrition. Human rights considerations are integrated throughout the recommendations formulated in the UCFA as cross–cutting issues. 7. OHCHR continued its advocacy for the use of indicators to strengthen human rights policies and monitoring systems on economic, social and cultural rights at country, regional and international levels. On the occasion of the first World Statistics Day (20 December 2010), the High Commissioner highlighted how data enable more effective promotion, monitoring and implementation of human rights standards, and noted that the framework developed by OHCHR1 makes available precise and up-to-date data to help States assess progress in human rights implementation and capacity-building. 8. Drawing from this methodology, which was endorsed by the treaty bodies in 2008, field presences in Ecuador, Mexico and Nepal have continued working towards strengthening the capacity of national authorities for developing indicators to be used as a tool to monitor economic, social and cultural rights. For example, in Mexico, OHCHR, the National Institute for Statistics and Geography, and the National Human Rights Commission have achieved prominent advances in their work on indicators, especially for the rights to health and education. Indicators for the right to health were subject to validation involving over 70 experts, including governmental institutions, civil society organizations and human rights local commissions, which contributed to improving the indicators and enabling more systematic monitoring of the right. In Nepal, OHCHR continued its support to the Government, national human rights institutions and civil society organisations to identify and contextualize indicators for monitoring ESCRs. One of the outcomes was the integration of human rights indicators into the National Human Rights Action Plan that outlines the Government’s plans and priorities for 2010-2012, in a number of areas, including health, education, administration of justice and institution building, and addresses targeted programmes for marginalized and vulnerable groups. In Ecuador, OHCHR, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, the National Institute of Statistics and Census, the National Secretary of Planning and Development, the Ombudsman and United Nations agencies were involved in the design of a national plan for developing the use of indicators to promote and monitor the implementation of human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights. 9. Given the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ request to States parties to identify statistical indicators and related national benchmarks for each right provided for in the Covenant, OHCHR conducted training workshops on the conceptual and methodological framework for indicators developed with the treaty bodies at the request of national stakeholders, including Governments, national human rights institutions, and United Nations Country Teams. Technical assistance on human rights indicators was also provided by OHCHR to a number of countries, including Guatemala, Kenya and the United Kingdom. OHCHR started developing practical tools to help disseminate and 1 4 Outlined in HRI/MC/2008/3.