Countries where UN rights body has offices
To establish these offices, the OHCHR negotiates a comprehensive mandate with host governments, encompassing both the protection and promotion of human rights
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) operates in 18 countries around the world to promote and protect human rights in accordance with international law.
Currently, the OHCHR has 18 country or stand-alone offices around the world, according to its website.
The country offices are located in Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chad, Colombia, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Liberia, Mauritania, Mexico, Niger, the State of Palestine, the Syrian Arab Republic (based in Beirut), Sudan, Tunisia, and Yemen.
Keep updated, follow The Business Standard's Google news channel
Besides, the OHCHR has one field-based structure in Seoul that covers the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK); and the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU).
To establish these offices, the OHCHR negotiates a comprehensive mandate with host governments, encompassing both the protection and promotion of human rights.
A mandate typically includes human rights monitoring and analysis, protection, interaction with and the provision of technical assistance to the host government, national authorities, civil society, victims and other relevant counterparts through targeted technical cooperation activities, capacity-building and public reporting.
Bangladesh is set to become the newest addition to this list. The OHCHR and the government of Bangladesh have recently signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to open an OHCHR mission in the country.
With this addition, the total number of OHCHR offices worldwide will increase to 19.
