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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), a department of the United Nations Secretariat, is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights laws and treaties. The mandate includes preventing human rights violations, securing respect for all human rights, promoting international cooperation to protect human rights, coordinating related activities throughout the United Nations, and strengthening and streamlining the United Nations system in the field of human rights. In addition to its mandated responsibilities, the Office leads efforts to integrate a human rights approach within all work carried out by United Nations agencies.  Website: www.ohchr.org/english/
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Oral update by Christof Heyns UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Member of the United Nations Independent Investigation on Burundi (UNIIB)

22 March 2016 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Report On The Human Rights Situation In Libya

16 November 2015 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine

15 November 2014 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Overview of Violations of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law during the ongoing Violence in Libya

4 September 2014 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine

15 June 2014 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine

15 May 2014 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Independent International Commission of Inquiry established pursuant to resolution A/HRC/S-17/1 and extended through resolution A/HRC/Res/19/22

24 May 2012 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Fourth Periodic Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan: Deepening Crisis in Darfur, Two Months after the Darfur Peace Agreement: An Assessment

25 July 2006 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Third Periodic Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Human Rights Situation in the Sudan

April 2006 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Second Periodic Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Human Rights Situation in Sudan

27 January 2006 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

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