Human Rights Law

UN Human Rights Charter Bodies 

The charter bodies created under the UN Charter are responsible for enforcing and monitoring compliance with international human rights. The UN Charter-based bodies database contains all the human rights reports, resolutions, decisions and materials by all the charter based bodies created within the United Nations since 1994. The database can be searched by body and document type, and narrowed by country and subject.

Charter bodies:

1. Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) 
2. Human Rights Council (formerly the Commission on Human Rights 1946-2006). See The Human Rights Council: A Practical Guide for detailed information on the Council's operations.
   • Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council - The special procedures / Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. The Special procedures database contains reports of country visits, statistics, thematic and country mandates and other documents. This database can be searched or browsed.
   • Human Rights Advisory Committee (formerly the Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights)

Universal Periodic Review 

The UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States, undertaken by the UN Human Rights Council. It involves review of the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States once every four years. Review under the UPR does not depend on a country being a party to a particular human rights treaty.