error comes from assuming that women and men are heterosexual, which is false. This miscategorization is the result of our heteronormative bias. To avoid these issues is important to pay attention when we define the variables or the terms we will use for data collection and registration. Tips to use HR standards for variables definition ★ Be careful on using international human rights standards as an unique or exclusive source of indicators definitions for data registration purposes. Using universal standards as a source is useful and necessary but not enough. ACNUDH, said: “The enunciation of human rights regulations (...) can be very general; furthermore, many human rights seem to overlap. This means that the provisions of the rights treaties are not particularly useful for defining appropriate indicators”. (See the full statement in the footnote)1. ★ Select definitions consciously and strategically. Remember that the definitions you choose will affect the type of data you include and exclude in your analysis. The definitions have ulterior consequences and reflect our position regarding the topic to be studied. ★ Even in the human rights field, the conceptual definitions we establish for research or data collection purposes could be based on broader perspectives than the judicial or legal standards. 1 “The enumeration of human right standards in treaties and their further elaboration by the treaty monitoring bodies and other human rights mechanisms and instruments may remain quite general and many human rights appear to overlap. So human rights treaty provisions are not particularly helpful in the identification of appropriate indicator(s). As a starting point, it is therefore important that the narrative on the legal standard of a human right is transcribed into a limited number of characteristics or attributes of that right. By identifying the attributes of a right, the process of selecting and developing suitable indicators or clusters of indicators is facilitated as one arrives at a categorization that is clear, concrete and, perhaps, more “tangible”. Indeed, the notion of attributes of a right helps in making the content of a right concrete and makes explicit the link between identified indicators of a right on the one hand and the normative standards of that right on the other”. 8