HIGHLIGHTS OF RESULTS HIGHLIGHTS OF RESULTS Development (D) CONNECTING NATIONAL STATISTICAL OFFICES AND NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS TO “LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND” Advancing sustainable development through human rights To assist with the implementation and measurement of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, UN Human Rights has been leading work to integrate human rights into data collection and disaggregation to help ensure that no one is left behind. Development in numbers MAINSTREAMING HUMAN RIGHTS IN UNDAFs AND UN COUNTRY TEAMS UN Country Teams in 30 32 Human Rights Advisers were deployed in UN Country Teams under the framework of the UNDG countries satisfactorily integrated international human rights norms, standards and principles, as well as the recommendations of the human rights mechanisms, into their work MAINSTREAMING HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL IN THE UN SYSTEM 15 UN policies and programmes at the global level significantly integrated a human rightsbased approach 2030 AGENDA AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs) UN Human Rights is a custodian of 4 SDG indicators under Goal 16 JOINT UN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES Of 63 1,160 joint UNCT submissions to treaty bodies stakeholder contributions to UPR, 93 were prepared by UN entities 22 UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2018 UN Human Rights e-learning module on operationalizing the right to development in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals completed by over 200 60 participants from over countries In Kenya, with the aim of identifying disadvantaged groups, UN Human Rights helped to establish institutional collaboration between the National Commission on Human Rights and the National Bureau of Statistics. As a result, 25 population groups most at risk of being left behind were identified, including women from the poorest regions, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and slum dwellers. This collaboration enabled the integration of a human rights-based approach into the 2019 Population and Housing Census, which includes a question relevant to persons with albinism. “Our signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) is a great milestone in the development of official statistics. UN Human Rights was instrumental in initiating and facilitating dialogue and it continues to provide unwavering support and capacity building. We look forward to…ensuring that the official statistics we generate allow for effective identification, planning and evidence-based policymaking for all groups,” said Zachary Mwangi, Director General of the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. “Human rights advocacy is the primary mandate of national human rights institutions and entails persuading governments 1 to act in compliance with their human rights obligations. This work is advanced when advocacy is backed up with credible data. This partnership guarantees that the NCHR builds its capacity in terms of collecting credible data and that the statistics body expands the lens that it uses to collect data to incorporate traditionally marginalized groups. UN Human Rights essentially brokered this union,” said Patricia Nyaundi, the former Secretary of Kenya’s National Commission on Human Rights. A similar cooperation agreement was signed between the statistics office and the national human rights institution of the State of Palestine1 . UN Human Rights played a key role in bringing the two institutions together, including by developing a common understanding and increased awareness about their respective mandates and discussing the interdependence of statistics and human rights. “Signing the MoU with the Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) is part of our strategy to strengthen the national statistical system and provide the data needed to realize the commitment to leaving no one behind in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. It is absolutely crucial for us to join forces to address the data challenges of revealing the situation of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in Palestine. In developing the MoU, we benefited from the experiences that UN Human Rights shared with us from other countries,” said Dr. Ola Awad, President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. © OHCHR/Kenya © OHCHR/State of Palestine The General Director of the Independent Commission for Human Rights, Dr. Ammar Dweik, stressed the importance of the partnership in providing data on indicators that can measure the implementation of the international human rights treaties acceded to by Palestine. “Since the signing of the MoU, ICHR has played an important role in providing guidance on the development of the planned domestic violence survey and the identification and development of human rights indicators and related SDG indicators for measuring Palestine’s implementation of CEDAW.” All references to the State of Palestine should be understood in compliance with United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19. UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2018 23