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67.
Human rights measurement should not be seen as a top-down exercise. Rights
holders and civil society actors must be able to provide their own data and develop
their own measurement tools to hold States accountable.
68.
The measurement of human rights requires capacity-building, exchange of
practices and partnership between entities that have traditionally not worked
together, such as official statistics bureaus, civil society organizations and human
rights institutions.
69.
Human rights measurements and indicators should be systematically used in
the context of State interaction with international human rights mechanisms,
including the treaty bodies and the universal periodic review. This will improve the
basis for an objective and constructive dialogue on the evaluation and evolution of
human rights at the national level. In this context, the OHCHR framework for human
rights indicators, which has been recommended by international human rights
mechanisms, is a key tool.50
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An increasing number of States and national stakeholders have requested OHCHR support for
capacity-building activities and technical support in this field, including Albania, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire,
Egypt, Gabon, Guatemala, Morocco, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Tajikistan,
Togo, Tunisia, the United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.
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