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E/C.12/CRI/CO/5 67. The Committee recommends that the State party take fully into account its obligations under the Covenant and ensure the full enjoyment of the rights enshrined therein when implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the national level, with international assistance and cooperation when needed. Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals would be significantly facilitated 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. 68. 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 the conceptual and methodological framework for human rights indicators prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HRI/MC/2008/3). 69. The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding observations widely at all levels of society, in particular among indigenous peoples and people of African descent, public officials, judicial authorities, legislators, lawyers and civil society organizations, and to inform the Committee, in its next periodic report, on the measures taken to implement the recommendations made herein. The Committee also encourages the State party to engage civil society organizations in the discussions to be held at the national level on the implementation of the present concluding observations and prior to the submission of its next periodic report. 70. The Committee requests the State party to submit its sixth 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 2021. In addition, it 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). GE.16-18309 11

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Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Costa Rica

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Costa Rica

Rights Involved

Right to adequate housing
Right to adequate standard of living
Right to education
Right to food
Right to health
Right to life
Right to social security
Right to water and sanitation
Right to work
Rights of indigenous peoples
Rights of migrants/non-citizens
Rights of persons with disabilities
Rights of the child
Rights of women and girls

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Accountability
Non-discrimination
Participation
Progressive realization
Resource allocation
Resource generation
Transparency

International Human Rights Body

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Date: Oct 21, 2016

Summary: In their Concluding Observations of Costa Rica, the CESCR provides recommendations to the State party to take measures to promote the rights of indigenous people, gender equality, and the range of ESCR, and to allocate sufficient budgetary resources toward these ends. On fiscal policy, the Committee recommends that the State party take the necessary steps to ensure that the current tax reforms are redistributive and socially fair and that they will make it possible to combat the growth of inequalities and to increase the resources available for implementing economic, social and cultural rights.

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