OHCHR - United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
$5,000,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2021-2022
- Agreement period
- December 23, 2021 – September 30, 2022
- Project status
- Closed
- Reference
- CA-3-P011101001
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) strengthening and streamlining the United Nations system in the field of human rights.
In plain English AI-generated
This grant provides Canada's long-term institutional support to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to promote and protect human rights globally, including preventing violations and coordinating UN human rights activities.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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