OHCHR - United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Published purpose

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). OHCHR uses these funds, and other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate. OHCHR's mandate is to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and international human rights laws and treaties. The mandate includes (1) preventing human rights violations; (2) securing respect for all human rights; (3) promoting international cooperation to protect human rights; (4) coordinating related activities throughout the United Nations; and (5) and strengthening and streamlining the United Nations system in human rights. Canada’s support of OHCHR ensures that the organization effectively integrates human rights into UN policies and programmes; the international community responds effectively to critical human rights situations and issues; and Global and regional human rights mechanisms and bodies promote and protect human rights effectively.