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by the State party establishing independent mechanisms to monitor progress and
treating beneficiaries of public programmes as rights holders who can claim
entitlements. Implementing the Goals on the basis of the principles of participation,
accountability and non-discrimination would ensure that no one is left behind.
72.
The Committee recommends that the State party take steps to progressively
develop and apply appropriate indicators on the implementation of economic, social
and cultural rights in order to facilitate the assessment of progress achieved by the
State party in complying with its obligations under the Covenant for various segments
of the population. In that context, the Committee refers the State party to, inter alia,
the conceptual and methodological framework on human rights indicators developed
by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(HRI/MC/2008/3).
73.
The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding
observations widely among all sectors of society and among public officials, judicial
authorities, legislators, lawyers, the Ombudsman’s Office and civil society
organizations, and to inform the Committee in its next periodic report about the
measures that it has adopted to give effect to the recommendations made. The
Committee also encourages the State party to seek the participation of civil society
organizations in any discussions held at the national level in follow-up to these
concluding observations prior to the submission of its next periodic report.
74.
Pursuant to the Committee’s procedure for following up on concluding
observations, the State party is requested to provide information, within 18 months of
the adoption of the present concluding observations, on the action taken to give effect
to the recommendations made by the Committee in paragraphs 10 (Human rights
defenders), 16 (Exploitation of natural resources) and 50 (a) (Access to land) above.
75.
The Committee requests the State party to submit its seventh periodic report,
to be prepared in accordance with the reporting guidelines adopted by the Committee
in 2008 (E/C.12/2008/2), by 31 October 2022. The Committee also invites the State
party to update its common core document in accordance with the harmonized
guidelines on reporting under the international human rights treaties
(HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6, chap. I).
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