II. >> C onceptualizing Indicators for Human Rights >> The conceptual framework Box 4 Salient features of the conceptual framework The conceptual framework adopted to identify indicators for promoting and monitoring the implementation of human rights:  nchors indicators identified for a human right in the normative content of that right, as described A primarily in the relevant articles of the treaties and general comments of the committees; Focuses on measuring the commitments of duty bearers, primarily the State, to their human rights obligations and the efforts they undertake to meet those obligations. The framework also measures the results of the duty bearer’s efforts in ensuring the realization and enjoyment of human rights by rights holders. As a result, the framework uses a cluster of indicators to measure the different facets of the duty bearer’s obligations, including the obligations of conduct and result, that underpin the implementation of human rights standards; P laces all human rights on an equal footing, thereby emphasizing the interdependence and indivisibility of civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights;  eflects duty bearers’ obligations to respect, protect and fulfil human rights, by focusing on indicators R that capture human entitlements, acts of commission or omission, and mechanisms of accountability and redress—legal as well as administrative;  ecognizes and reflects the cross-cutting human rights norms, such as non-discrimination, equality, R participation, accountability, the rule of law, due process, good governance and remedy (at the national and international levels), in the choice of indicators and in the assessments; and Facilitates, for the universal human rights standards, the identification of contextually meaningful indicators. As a result, the framework neither seeks to prepare a common list of indicators to be applied across all countries irrespective of their social, political and economic development, nor to make a case for building a global measure for cross-country comparisons of the realization of human rights. 2 Measuring human rights commitments-efforts-results The realization of human rights requires continuous efforts on the part of the duty bearer, primarily the State, to respect, protect and fulfil them, and for rights holders to stake their claims. In monitoring the implementation of human rights it is important, therefore, to assess, at a given point in time, the identified outcomes that correspond to their realization. It is equally important to assess whether the processes underpinning those outcomes conform, over time, to the relevant human rights standards. This necessity to monitor outcomes as well as underlying processes is, perhaps, not always equally recognized for Human Rights Indicators 33