A/HRC/38/28 22. The majority of the Sustainable Development Goal indicators adopted by the General Assembly are directly related to indicators that measure the realization of human rights. Overall, a quarter of them explicitly or implicitly address gender equality. The interconnection between human rights and sustainable development has been increasingly recognized in the development of Sustainable Development Goal indicators, including for data disaggregation. Work has advanced in relation to compiling and reporting on Sustainable Development Goal indicators, for which OHCHR has been tasked by Member States as the custodian agency, under the Statistical Commission — including indicators on the prevalence of discrimination, violence against human rights defenders, the existence of national human rights institutions, and conflict-related deaths (not included in traditional homicide statistics). OHCHR, in collaboration with the Danish Institute for Human Rights, has been able to make progress on developing a conceptual and methodological framework for indicator 4.7.1, and more specifically to measure that indicator’s human rights education component. 23. In November 2017, the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators approved the request by OHCHR to reclassify the indicator on violence against human rights defenders from tier III to tier II, thus endorsing the proposed methodology. 6 OHCHR had undertaken a first data-collection exercise that drew on multiple sources (e.g. special procedures, treaty bodies, OHCHR press statements and press releases, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) database on killings of journalists, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)) and applied a minimum set of data of and verification requirements (e.g. the victim’s name, status, sex and age; the date and place of the incident(s); the motivation; and information about the perpetrator). 24. In Mexico, OHCHR supported the development of indicators in the areas of economic, social and cultural rights and justice, and the enhancement of indicators to bring them into line with the Sustainable Development Goals, at the federal level (with the National Institute of Statistics and Geography) and in the states of Coahuila, Oaxaca, Mexico City and Querétaro, and to measure the achievement of a broad set of rights. In Paraguay, human rights indicators based on OHCHR methodology were developed for persons with disabilities, linked to the national action plan on the rights of persons with disabilities adopted in 2015 and to the Sustainable Development Goals. With the technical support of OHCHR, the Secretariat for Social Action designed a set of human rights indicators related to poverty, to economic, social and cultural rights and to social protection, which were linked to the social programmes implemented by the Secretariat. In the Plurinational State of Bolivia, OHCHR supported 70 focal points in line with ministries and experts from the National Institute of Statistics to review and consolidate the human rights indicators developed to date and to coordinate actions necessary to make use of them. In Guatemala, OHCHR organized training workshops on a human rights-based approach to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and human rights indicators, and worked to support and bring together different stakeholders in the areas of the Sustainable Development Goals and human rights in common efforts to strengthen measurement and implementation of the Goals. In Kazakhstan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) adapted OHCHR-developed human rights indicators in six areas (right not to be subjected to torture; right to participate in public affairs; right to education; right to adequate housing; right to a fair trial; violence against women), which align with Sustainable Development Goal indicators. 25. Expanded availability of disaggregated data, based on prohibited grounds of discrimination, will help to ensure that progress is measured for all groups of rights holders, and is crucial for ensuring that no one gets lost among population averages and therefore gets “left behind”. 6 In the Sustainable Development Goals indicator framework, indicators classified as tier I are said to have both methodology and data available, those classified as tier II are said to have methodology only available, and those classified as tier III are said to have neither methodology nor data available. 7