A/HRC/RES/31/5 6. Recognizes that reliable information and disaggregated data are important for the assessment of progress or regression in the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, and can help to support the development of laws, policies and programmes to help States to meet their human rights obligations; 7. Acknowledges the importance of assessing progress in the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, and that human rights measurement can contribute positively to the implementation by States of their obligations, including in the context of their interaction with international human rights mechanisms regarding their obligations, inter alia, with the treaty bodies and the universal periodic review; 8. Also acknowledges that systematic and coherent national mechanisms for assessing progress in respect of each State on the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, when fully in line with international human rights law principles and standards, can make policies, programmes and budgeting processes more efficient and help to improve State reporting on their implementation of those human rights obligations; 9. Urges States to consider adopting or further developing procedures for information gathering and measurement, which may, if analysed in the light of international human rights law principles and standards, serve as national indicators for State decisionmaking processes, and are transparent, participatory and allow for accountability; 10. Underlines the importance of an effective remedy for violations of economic, social and cultural rights, and in this regard takes note with appreciation of measures taken to facilitate access to complaints procedures and the domestic adjudication of cases, as appropriate, for victims of alleged human rights violations; 11. Welcomes the steps taken at the national level to implement economic, social and cultural rights, including the enactment of appropriate legislation and adjudication by national courts; 12. Recognizes that the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets seek to, inter alia, realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and that they are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development, namely, the economic, the social and the environmental; 13. Notes with interest the work carried out by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to assist States parties in fulfilling their obligations, including through the issuance of general comments, the consideration of periodic reports and, for States parties to the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the examination of individual communications; 14. Also notes with interest the work of other relevant treaty bodies and special procedures in the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights within their respective mandates; 15. Encourages enhanced cooperation and, as appropriate, increased coordination between the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and United Nations bodies, specialized agencies and programmes, mechanisms of the Human Rights Council and other human rights treaty bodies whose activities have a bearing on economic, social and cultural rights in a manner that respects their distinctive mandates and promotes their policies, programmes and projects; 16. Recognizes and encourages the important contributions of regional organizations, national human rights institutions and civil society, including nongovernmental organizations, academic and research institutions, business enterprises and 3