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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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Burundi: the Commission of Inquiry is deeply concerned by the freedom of action and the impunity of the Imbonerakure

5 September 2018 | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | Document type: Country Reports

Human rights violations and abuses in the context of protests in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from 1 April to 31 July 2017

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

United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) MONUSCO-OHCHR. Report on Human Rights Violations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Context of the Events of 19 December 2016

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

Report on the Right to Freedom of Expression: Striving to Widen Democratic Space in Somalia's Political Transition

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

Report on the Right to Freedom of Expression: Striving to Widen Democratic Space in Somalia's Political Transition

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

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

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