Outcome
Process
Structural
Table 14
Disappearances of individuals
Health and nutrition
• Date of entry into force and
coverage of habeas corpus
provision in the constitution
• Time frame and coverage of
national policy on health and
nutrition
• Number of subnational administrative
entities that have abolished death penalty
• Date of entry into force and coverage of
safeguards for those facing death penalty
(including minimum age, pregnancy,
mother of young children, disabilities)
Death penalty
• Proportion of communications
from the Working Group
on Enforced or Involuntary
Disappearances responded to
effectively by the Government
in the reporting period
• Proportion of cases where
pretrial detention exceeded the
legally stipulated time limit
• Number of habeas corpus and
similar petitions filed in courts in
the reporting period, per
1000 persons detained
• Ratio of persons brought
into formal contact with law
enforcement authorities for
alleged disappearance /
abduction to number of
reported cases
• Proportion of persons brought
into formal contact with law
enforcement authorities for
alleged disappearance /
abduction who are convicted
• Reported cases of disappearance (e.g., as reported to the
Working Group on Enforced or
Involuntary Disappearances)
• Proportion of cases of
disappearance clarified, by
status of person at the date of
clarification (at liberty, in
detention or dead)
• Infant and under-five mortality
rates*
• Maternal mortality ratio*
• Life expectancy at birth or
age 1
• Prevalence of and death rates
associated with communicable
and non-communicable
diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS,
malaria and tuberculosis*)
• Proportion of population using
an improved drinking water
source*
• Proportion of births attended
by skilled health personnel*
• Proportion of population
below minimum level of dietary
energy consumption*
• Proportion of targeted
population covered by
public nutrition supplement
programmes
• Proportion of population using
an improved sanitation facility*
• Proportion of one-year-olds
immunized against
vaccine-preventable diseases
(e.g., measles*)
• Proportion of disease cases
detected and cured
(e.g., tuberculosis*)
• Proportion of death sentences commuted
• Number of executions
(under death penalty)
• Number of convicted persons on death
row in the reporting period, on a specified
date, including by age, sex (pregnancy,
motherhood status) and nationality
• Average time spent by convicted persons
on death row
• Proportion of accused persons facing
capital punishment provided with access
to a lawyer or legal aid
• Proportion of convicted persons facing
capital punishment exercising the right to
have their sentence reviewed by a higher
court
• Reported cases of expulsion or imminent
expulsion of persons to a country where
they may face the death penalty
* MDG-related indicators
All indicators should be disaggregated by prohibited grounds of discrimination, as applicable and reflected in metadata sheets
• Homicides (intentional and non-intentional) rate per
100,000 population
• Number of deaths in custody per 1,000 detained or imprisoned
persons, by cause of death (e.g., illness, suicide, homicide)
• Reported cases of arbitrary deprivation of life and death threats
(e.g., as reported to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial,
summary or arbitrary executions)
• Proportion of communications from the Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions responded to
effectively by the Government in the reporting period
• Proportion of law enforcement officials and custodial staff
trained in rules of conduct concerning proportional use of
force, arrest, detention, investigation and treatment of persons
in custody
• Proportion of law enforcement officials formally investigated for
physical or non-physical abuse or crime that caused death or
threatened life in the reporting period
• Proportion of formal investigations of law enforcement
officials resulting in disciplinary action or prosecution in the
reporting period
• Ratio of persons brought into formal contact with law
enforcement authorities (i.e., suspected, arrested or cautioned)
for alleged arbitrary deprivation of life / homicides (intentional
and non-intentional) to number of reported cases
• Proportion of persons brought into formal contact with law
enforcement authorities for alleged deprivation of life /
homicides (intentional and non-intentional) who are convicted
• Proportion of identified perpetrators of reported cases of
arbitrary deprivation of life prosecuted, arrested, adjudicated,
convicted or serving sentence in the reporting period
• Proportion of received complaints on the right to life investigated and adjudicated by the national human rights institution, human rights ombudsperson or other mechanisms and
the proportion of these responded to effectively by the Government
• Date of entry into force and coverage of a coroner (forensics
examiner) and cause of death certification system
• Date of entry into force and coverage of formal procedure
governing inspection of police cells, detention centres and
prisons by independent inspection agencies
• International human rights treaties relevant to the right to life ratified by the State
• Date of entry into force and coverage of the right to life in the constitution or other forms of superior law
• Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic laws for implementing the right to life
• Type of accreditation of national human rights institutions by the rules of procedure of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions
Arbitrary deprivation of life
Illustrative indicators on the right to life (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 3)
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