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

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. The mandate of the OHCHR is to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization by all peoples of all the rights set forth in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights laws and treaties. Project activities of the OHCHR include: (1) preventing human rights violations; (2) ensuring 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 rationalizing the United Nations system in the field of human rights.