A/HRC/28/42 60. The Human Rights Adviser to the United Nations country team1 has helped raise awareness of the situation and promote a common understanding among the Government, the National Human Rights Institute, civil society and the United Nations on the need for a concerted and human rights-based approach to address the issue. A strong United Nations strategy for the protection and promotion of the rights of persons with albinism is being developed, with a concrete action plan and monitoring framework, to complement the Government’s efforts. 61. Violence against people with albinism is not specific to the United Republic of Tanzania. Since 2000, OHCHR has received information about more than 200 ritual attacks in 15 African States. It is believed that many attacks remain undocumented and unreported, owing to the stigma and secretiveness involved. Zambia: promoting social inclusion of the Abatwa indigenous community 62. The Abatwa indigenous community in Zambia has long been subjected to discrimination, social exclusion and poverty. In an effort to raise awareness about that situation, the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the United Nations country team initiated a project with the Office of the Vice-President of Zambia to produce a film documenting the situation of the Abatwa community. The Human Rights Adviser to the country team1 provided guidance in order to ensure that the film would focus on the many challenges facing the Abatwa community in terms of marginalization and discrimination, and on the urgent need to ensure their participation in key decision-making. The documentary looks at the situation of the Abatwa from a human rights perspective and has become an important awareness-raising tool illustrating the deprivation and exclusion to which the Abatwa have been subjected. It has also helped identify priority areas for United Nations support to the Government to better address the situation of that vulnerable community. C. Transparency, accountability and access to information Ecuador: atlas of socioeconomic inequalities 63. Between 2011 and 2013, at the request of the Government of Ecuador, OHCHR and the National Secretariat for Planning and Development (SENPLADES) engaged in close collaboration to strengthen the integration of human rights into the national development programme. The work resulted in the adoption of guidelines for the development of sectoral public policy and guidelines for the integration of a human rights-based approach into the national development plan and the development of an atlas of socioeconomic inequalities. 64. The atlas of socioeconomic inequalities, launched in 2013, was the result of close cooperation between SENPLADES, OHCHR and other United Nations entities, the Centro de Planificación y Estudio Social (Centre for Planning and Social Studies) and the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. The atlas is an innovative database that maps gaps in the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, and provides disaggregated data on a wide range of determinants, including ethnicity, sex, gender, age and region. The information contained in the atlas has made it possible to develop new social indicators that are better suited to measure poverty from a multidimensional perspective. The atlas served as a baseline for the National Strategy for Poverty Eradication and also provides data for the implementation of the National Development Plan for the period 2014–2017. The intention is to use the atlas in the years to come as a guide in the formulation and implementation of targeted policies aimed at addressing persistent inequalities in Ecuador. 15

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