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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- Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 1
- Child soldiers 2
- Combatants / Former combatants 1
- Conflict situation 1
- Crimes against peace 1
- Criminal justice 1
- Demobilization / Disarmament 1
- Effective remedy 2
- Extrajudicial executions 1
- Flight by land, air or sea 1
- Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 2
- Freedom of assembly and association 2
- Freedom of expression 2
- Freedom of information 1
- Gender-based persecution 2
- Genocide 1
- Gross, systematic and large-scale 1
- Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
- Human rights activists 1
- Human rights and fundamental freedoms 3
- Humanitarian assistance 1
- Impunity 3
- Independence of judiciary 1
- Internal armed conflict 1
- Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
- Peacekeeping 1
- Persecution based on political opinion 1
- Political parties 1
- Political situation 1
- Protection of civilian persons in time of war 2
- Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
- Reintegration 1
- Right to health 1
- Right to liberty and security 3
- Right to life 4
- Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 1
- Security forces 2
- Security situation 4
- Serious non-political crime 1
- Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 5
- Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
- Tutsis 1
- Voluntary repatriation 1
- War crimes 1
- Women's rights 1
- Women-at-risk 1
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