Human rights indicators

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. 

ReadSpeaker Počúvajte 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. 

ReadSpeaker Počúvajte 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

ReadSpeaker Počúvajte The right to education. Evaluation according to human rights indicators for 2020.