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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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Report of the Mapping Project documenting serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of Central African Republic between January 2003 and December 2015

30 May 2017 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Ukraine: 14 March 2014 to 31 January 2017

11 February 2017 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Open wounds : Torture and ill-treatment in the Syrian Arab Republic

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

Report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003

August 2010 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Eleventh periodic report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan: Killing and injuring of civilians on 25 August 2008 by government security forces: Kalma IDP camp, South Darfur, Sudan

23 January 2009 | 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

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