This fact sheet series is intended to contribute to ongoing monitoring work to hold states accountable for their economic and social rights obligations. The Center for Economic and Social Rights hopes that it will be helpful to various UN and other intergovernmental human rights mechanisms including the UN Treaty Bodies, relevant Special Rapporteurs and the Human Rights Council???s Universal Periodic Review, as they review governments??? compliance with their treaty obligations.
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Drawing on comparative socioeconomic data regularly published by the UNDP, WHO and other international agencies, as well as the latest available national data, country fact sheets display, analyze and interpret selected human development indicators in the light of governments??? economic and social rights obligations. They are not meant to give a comprehensive picture, nor provide conclusive evidence, of a country???s compliance with its obligations. Rather, the fact sheets flag some possible concerns which arise when these statistics are analyzed in light of the various dimensions of states??? obligations under international human rights norms and core human rights treaties. 
The duty to satisfy minimum core obligations can be assessed using international comparisons of relevant indicators as a benchmark of what has been achieved in countries with similar resources. Selected international comparisons measuring progress over time shed light on the obligation to realize rights progressively according to maximum available resources, while disaggregated data is used to identify disparities and the progress made in eliminating discrimination and equal treatment in access to and enjoyment of these rights.
