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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 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

Press Release from the Commission of Inquiry on Syria (release of human rights defenders)

14 August 2015 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Human Rights Defenders Under Attack

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

Fact Sheet No. 25 (Rev.1), Forced Evictions

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

Nineteenth Special Session of the Human Rights Council

1 June 2012 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Oral Statement of Margaret Sekaggya Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders

5 March 2012 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Speeches/Statements

Report of the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms During the Pre-electoral Period in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

November 2011 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Commentary to the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

July 2011 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Legal Articles/Analyses/Commentaries

Fact Sheet No. 29, Human Rights Defenders: Protecting the Right to Defend Human Rights

April 2004 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Thematic Reports

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