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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

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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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

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Conflict-related Disappearances in Bardiya District December 2008

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Tenth periodic report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan: Arbitrary arrest and detention committed by national security, military and police 28 November 2008

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Summary of human rights concerns arising from the Terai protests of 13 - 29 February 2008 27 March 2008

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Ninth periodic report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan: Attacks on civilians in Saraf Jidad, Sirba, Silea and Abu Suruj in January and February 2008 20 March 2008

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Human Rights in Nepal: One Year after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement December 2007

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Uganda: Update report on the situation of human rights in Karamoja, from 1 April to 12 August 2007 3 September 2007

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Eighth Periodic Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Human Rights Situation in the Sudan: Women Abducted, Raped and Kept as Sex Slaves Following the December 2006 Attacks on Deribat 20 August 2007

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Making Peace Our Own: Victims' Perceptions of Accountability, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice in Northern Uganda August 2007

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports

Allegations of Human Rights Abuses by the Young Communist League (YCL) 22 June 2007

Category: Country Information | Publisher: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | Document type: Country Reports


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