United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR
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The mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is to protect and promote all human rights for all and to prevent the occurrence or continuation of human rights abuses throughout the world.
OHCHR is guided in its work by the mandate provided by the General Assembly in resolution 48/141, the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent human rights instruments, and the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action.
OHCHR aims to ensure the enforcement of universally recognized human rights norms, including through promoting both the universal ratification and implementation of human rights treaties and respect for the rule of law.
Operationally, OHCHR works with governments, national institutions, civil society, regional and international organizations, and the United Nations system to develop and strengthen capacity, particularly at the national level, for the promotion and protection of human rights in accordance with international norms
Institutionally, OHCHR is committed to strengthening the United Nations human rights programme and providing the United Nations treaty monitoring bodies and special mechanisms established by the Commission on Human Rights with the highest quality support. OHCHR is committed to working closely with its United Nations partners to ensure that human rights form the bedrock of the work of the Organization.
In carrying out its responsibilities, OHCHR will:
Give priority to addressing the most pressing human rights problems, both acute and chronic, with particular emphasis on those human rights violations that put life in imminent peril;
Ensure special attention for those who are at risk and vulnerable on multiple fronts;
Pay equal attention to the realization of civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights, including the right to development; and
Measure the impact of its work through the substantive benefit that is accrued, through it, to its intended beneficiaries.
OHCHR is guided in its work by the mandate provided by the General Assembly in resolution 48/141, the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent human rights instruments, and the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action.
OHCHR aims to ensure the enforcement of universally recognized human rights norms, including through promoting both the universal ratification and implementation of human rights treaties and respect for the rule of law.
Operationally, OHCHR works with governments, national institutions, civil society, regional and international organizations, and the United Nations system to develop and strengthen capacity, particularly at the national level, for the promotion and protection of human rights in accordance with international norms
Institutionally, OHCHR is committed to strengthening the United Nations human rights programme and providing the United Nations treaty monitoring bodies and special mechanisms established by the Commission on Human Rights with the highest quality support. OHCHR is committed to working closely with its United Nations partners to ensure that human rights form the bedrock of the work of the Organization.
In carrying out its responsibilities, OHCHR will:
Give priority to addressing the most pressing human rights problems, both acute and chronic, with particular emphasis on those human rights violations that put life in imminent peril;
Ensure special attention for those who are at risk and vulnerable on multiple fronts;
Pay equal attention to the realization of civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights, including the right to development; and
Measure the impact of its work through the substantive benefit that is accrued, through it, to its intended beneficiaries.
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