One of the Centre’s long-term goals is to develop a list of indicators that would serve to regularly monitor the observance of human rights. The starting point for compiling the indicators is the methodology and recommendations of the UNHCHR Human Rights Indicators. The Centre plans to continuously establish and coordinate working groups involving the public, non-governmental and academic sectors, whose aim is to propose a list of indicators for individual areas/human rights in such a way that they consider the specific context of Slovakia and the needs of vulnerable groups.
Topics
Environment and the climate change
The working group started working in August 2020 with the aim of discussing the possibilities of monitoring both the right to information on the state of the environment and access to justice in this area, as well as the impacts of climate change on human rights. Based on the suggestions of experts, the Centre will monitor indicators in the following areas: access to information, participation, and justice in the field of environmental protection, healthy environment, adaptation, and mitigation measures against climate change, impacts of climate change on human rights.
Working group
Greenpeace
Let’s not waste time!
Worried mothers
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Environmental Ecology
Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute
Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic
Slovak Environment Agency
State Nature Protection of the Slovak Republic
Institute of Hydrology of the Slovak Academy of Science
Research Institute of Water Management
M.Sc. Ladislav Hegeyi; independent expert
The right to housing
A set of indicators that monitor the possibility of realizing the right to housing as part of the right to an adequate standard of living was created within the internal working group and used to evaluate this area in the Report on the observance of human rights, including the principle of equal treatment for the year 2020. The indicators monitor the observance of the right to housing in the following sub-areas: habitability, affordability of housing, access to services and legal certainty of housing.
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Chapter Right to housing from the Report on the observance of human rights, including the principle of equal treatment in the Slovak Republic for the year 2019 |
The right to health
A set of indicators aimed at monitoring the implementation of the right to health was created within the internal working group and used to evaluate this area in the Report on the observance of human rights, including the principle of equal treatment for the year 2020. The indicators monitor the observance of the right to health in the following sub-areas: prevention, treatment and disease control, accessibility of medical facilities and essential medicines, child mortality and health care, sexual and reproductive health.
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Chapter Right to health from the Report on the observance of human rights, including the principle of equal treatment in the Slovak Republic for the year 2019 |
The right to education
The working group deals with compiling a set of indicators monitoring compliance with the right to education anchored in international documents. The indicators specifically focus on the needs of disadvantaged groups, especially children with medical disabilities and children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, but also members of national minorities. The specific areas are access to free education at ISCED level 0 to 2, access to vocational education at ISCED level 3, quality education and availability of educational resources and free choice in the choice of education.
Working group
Office of the Commissioner for Children
Office of the Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities
Office of the Public Defender of Rights
Institute of Educational Policy
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic – Section of National and Inclusive Education
I FORCE
CVTI
Platform of Families of Children with Disabilities
Association of Catholic Schools of Slovakia
Open Society Foundation
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The right to education. Evaluation according to human rights indicators for 2020. |