II. >> C onceptualizing Indicators for Human Rights >> Importance of context-specific indicators D. Importance of context-specific indicators For indicators to be useful in monitoring the implementation of human rights, they should be explicitly and precisely defined, based on an acceptable methodology of data collection and presentation and available on a regular basis. Otherwise, it may not be feasible or even acceptable to the State parties to use quantitative indicators in their reporting obligations to the treaty bodies, which would find it difficult to demonstrate the relevance and encourage the use of indicators in the reporting and follow-up process. The contextual relevance of indicators is a key consideration in the acceptability and use of indicators among potential users engaged in monitoring the implementation of human rights. Countries and regions within countries have different social, economic and political attainments. They differ in the level of realization of human rights. These differences are invariably reflected in their specific development priorities. Therefore, it may not be possible to always have a universal set of indicators to assess the realization of human rights. For example, depending on the social, cultural or religious profile of a population in two different countries, the disaggregation of information by prohibited grounds of discrimination may have to be customized. Nevertheless, it is also true that certain human rights indicators, for example 44 Human Rights Indicators those capturing the realization of some civil and political rights, may well be relevant across all countries and their regions. Others that capture the realization of economic or social rights, such as the right to education or housing, may have to be customized to be of relevance in different countries. Even so, it would be relevant to monitor the core content of the rights universally. Thus, in designing a set of human rights indicators, like any other set of indicators, there is a need to strike a balance between universally relevant indicators and contextually specific indicators, as both are needed. The adopted framework permits such a balance between a core set of human rights indicators that may be universally relevant and, at the same time, it encourages a more detailed and focused assessment of certain attributes of the relevant human right, depending on the requirements of a particular situation. Ultimately, the objective of using the conceptual framework is to encourage a practical, transparent and structured approach for a comprehensive translation of the human rights standards into concrete, well-defined, contextually meaningful indicators that help in the promotion and implementation of human rights.