A/HRC/4/9/Add.3 page 24 Detention of NGO workers or expulsion of international employees has been reported. The independent expert notes, however, the constructive nature of some government engagement with a number of national and international NGOs.22 87. The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission23 started functioning during 2005. The Commission has to date not filed for accreditation with the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC). It is therefore not currently considered to be set up in accordance with the Paris Principles, for example regarding its independence from Government.24 The mandate of the Commission is threefold: to promote the concept of human rights amongst the public; to monitor human rights violations; and to take measures to remedy violations. A human rights ombudsman was appointed in June 2004. VII. POVERTY 88. Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world and ranks 170 out of 177 nations in the UNDP Human Development Index.25 Additionally, the Human Poverty Index for developing countries (HPI-1) looks beyond income deprivation to consider severe deprivation in, for example, health, education and access to clean water and sanitation. Ethiopia ranks 98 among 102 developing countries for which the index is calculated. 89. Minority communities uniquely affected by racism, discrimination, exclusion and often violence, suffer high and disproportionate levels of poverty.26 Ethiopia gives some attention to regional disparities in its Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) and it was noted that pastoralist issues are included in the second phase of the PRSP. However Ethiopia does not provide data disaggregated by ethnicity that would reveal inequalities across ethnic and religious groups and allow policies and programmes to be designed for and targeted at particularly disadvantaged groups. 22 Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia cooperated with the Government to establish Ethiopian Pastoralist Day (declared a National Day) to raise awareness of pastoralist culture and issues, and bring pastoralist groups together to advocate for their rights. 23 The Commission was established in 2000 by Proclamation 210/2000. 24 In 2006 the Commission sought assistance and technical support from OHCHR and bilateral donors and the independent expert encourages such initiatives and early accreditation with the ICC. 25 The Index is a comparative measure based on indicators in such fields as life expectancy, literacy, education, health and general standard of living for countries worldwide, and offers a broad consideration of “well-being”. 26 The independent expert highlights the thematic focus established in her initial report on minorities to the Human Rights Council in the context of poverty alleviation and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), further developed in her 2007 annual report (A/HRC/4/9).