A/HRC/17/24 operationalize the adopted framework. An expert meeting organized by OHCHR in June 2010, and attended by members of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other treaty bodies, help to validate the preliminary draft of a practical guide on the methodology for developing indicators. OHCHR's methodology for developing human rights indicators also contributed to the framework for action of the High-Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis, which provided illustrative indicators for assessing, monitoring and evaluating food and nutrition security situations. 10. Further to Human Rights Council resolution 11/8, OHCHR prepared a thematic study on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (A/HRC/14/39), which was considered in a panel discussion on 14 June 2010. Following During the discussion, 108 countries issued a joint statement requesting the High Commissioner to take the study to the High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to demonstrate the need to integrate a human rights perspective to achieving all MDGs, in particular Goal 5 on maternal health. On 30 September 2010, the Council adopted, by consensus, a resolution welcoming OHCHR's report, and requesting the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare an analytical compilation on good and effective practices to prevent maternal mortality and morbidity. That request, which was supported by 96 co–sponsors, indicated the international community’s increasing responsiveness to the issue which previously had been addressed outside the human rights arena. 11. The year 2010 marked an important milestone in the process towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, which are intimately linked and instrumental to the progressive realization of human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights. The OHCHR substantively contributed to the General Assembly’s High-level Plenary Meeting on the MDGs (MDG Summit) by advocating a stronger position for human rights in the deliberations and in the outcome of the Summit, and promoting greater understanding of the linkages between human rights and development. As part of its communication strategy, the United Nations and OHCHR have developed complementary and linked communications tools, including websites.2 In August 2010, an article on human rights and the MDGs, entitled “MDGs: Time is Running Out”, signed by the High Commissioner, was published in 16 media outlets in 13 countries in 8 languages. Such efforts have succeeded in the earning recognition by Heads of States of the central importance of human rights for achieving the MDGs, by spelling out human rights commitments in concrete terms to illustrate how commitments can be translated into action. These commitments highlight the practical implications of key human rights principles, such as equality, non-discrimination, participation, accountability and transparency, in both national development strategies and international development partnerships. Furthermore, the outcome document of the MDG Summit made more explicit the alignment of MDG targets with specific sets of human rights standards as a pre-requisite for formulating and implementing more integral human rights-sensitive development strategies. 12. On 20 October 2010, the High Commissioner delivered her statement at the 65th session of the General Assembly, in which she referred, inter alia, to the financial crash, the economic recession and the MDG Summit. With regard to the latter, she noted that the outcome document provided “a framework for filling gaps that invariably open up when abuses of human rights take place, including economic, social and cultural rights violations.” 2 Such as http://www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010/ and http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/MDG/Pages/MDGIndex.aspx. 5