especially those with the mandate to investigate alleged human rights abuses, cooperate with national, regional, hybrid and international judicial bodies by providin g information and technical advice, bringing legal cases and conducting monitoring activities to ensure that the rights of victims, witnesses and the accused that interact with judicial bodies are protected. 6 On the other hand, regional and international human rights mechanisms view the criminal justice system as an integral component of the State’s efforts to meet its international human rights obligations. OHCHR, for its part, not only supports the different UN human rights mechanisms as they discharge their standard-setting and monitoring duties but also works for the implementation of these standards on the ground through greater country engagement and field presence activities. Thus, monitoring human rights situations is a core element of its overall strategy and takes many forms, including incident-based monitoring, human rights investigations and analysis of trends and patterns. Through its human rights monitoring work, which is undertaken in accordance with international human rights standards, OHCHR actively collects, verifies and uses information to prevent and address human rights violations.7 For example, OHCHR gathers information in the course of its human rights monitoring work, verifies, analyses and reports using appropriate information management systems. A Glossary of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Violations (see Box B) provides guidance to human rights officers who document violations in classifying, analysing and reporting on violations. The Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council 8, supported by OHCHR, also compile data based on situations and individual complaints. These human rights monitoring processes can provide the basis for a global effort to record and report more systematically cases, patterns and trends relating to the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms by individuals and groups. The interaction between national criminal justice systems and human rights mechanisms at different levels, including with OHCHR, creates the proper conceptual parameters for the creation of a statistical tool that bridges the fields of human rights and crime justice with a view to supporting the implementation of SDG indicator 16.10.1. 6 OHCHR, Guidance Note on National Human Rights Institutions and Transitional Justice (2008), p. 18 OHCHR, Manual on Human Rights Monitoring, Chapter 2, p. 4. See also, OHCHR Annual Report 2016, Highlight of Results, p. 52 8 Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the UN Human Rights Council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures’ experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity. OHCHR provides support to the various special procedures. A searchable database of communications issued by special procedures is accessible at: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/ 7 5