The MDGs and the human rights to water and sanitation 2010, para. 53
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The Millennium Development Goals help to promote accountability at national and global levels through monitoring and reporting against internationally agreed as well as nationally tailored targets. They draw upon widely available socio-economic statistics to monitor progress towards a realistic number of quantifiable targets. In this regard, they can provide a valuable complement to more traditional human rights monitoring tools and techniques, bringing human development data and quantitative assessment methods to human rights monitoring and hence helping to give a more complete picture of countries' progress - in absolute as well as comparative terms - towards the fulfilment of certain socio-economic rights.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation