A/70/335 civil society actors should be thoroughly consulted in designing and implementing data-collection activities, as this would foster more effective data-collection systems and generate more accurate information, while building trust among vulnerable communities. Similarly, States should ensure the independence of official statistics. Moreover, the interpretation and monitoring of the data collected should be entrusted to independent agencies, such as the equality bodies in Europe, in order to guarantee the accountability of public service providers. The results of data-collection exercises should be made public, in conformity with data safety and protection rules, in order to inform the population and especially the groups concerned, with a view to empowering them in seeking equal treatment. 87. The Special Rapporteur is aware of the challenges posed by the operationalization and financial implications of collecting data on a large scale and calls upon Member States to seek or provide appropriate technical and financial assistance at the regional and international levels. In that respect , the Special Rapporteur welcomes the commitment under target 17.18 of the proposed sustainable development goals to support statistical capacity-building in developing countries. The Special Rapporteur further encourages States to seek capacity-building assistance from OHCHR in integrating a human rights approach to collecting personal data and refers to the methodology developed in the OHCHR guide to measuring and implementing human rights indicators. 88. The Special Rapporteur remains gravely concerned at the low rates of recording racially motivated crimes and data on discrimination in the administration of justice. He urges States to make all necessary efforts to collect data that could help determine the occurrence of hate crimes, assess the access of victims to justice and detect discrimination in the administration of justice, including racial profiling, which he addressed in his most recent report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/29/46). In that regard, the Special Rapporteur encourages States to enforce the recommendations issued by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in its general recommendation No. 31 (2005) on the prevention of racial discrimination in the administration and functioning of the criminal justice system. 89. The Special Rapporteur echoes the recommendation stemming from the Millennium Development Goals Report 2015 that “only by counting the uncounted can we reach the unreached” and that high-quality data, disaggregated by the prohibited grounds of discrimination, including sex, indigenous status, ethnicity, disability and migrant status, among others, are key to making adequate decisions and monitoring progress towards achieving universal sustainable development. 90. The Special Rapporteur calls upon the Statistical Commission, which is the technical forum for the development and implementation of the indicators and monitoring framework and reporting mechanisms for the goals and targets of the post-2015 development agenda, to ensure that adequate indicators are developed to measure the human rights impact of the new development policies and establish specific measures to capture the cross-cutting human rights principle of non-discrimination and equality. He further suggests that civil society should be active players in determining adequate indicators for 15-14106 23/24