The Role of United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human
Rights:- It is an agency of the United Nations which has been
constituted on 20 December, 1993 in consequences of the world conference of
human rights 1993 for the protection & promotion of human rights as
contained in the International covenants, Universal declaration of human rights
and other instruments related to this. ‘José Ayala Lasso’ was the
first High Commissioner for Human Rights during the period of 1994 to
1997. In present time ‘Ms.Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria’ is
the High Commissioner for Human Rights who has been elected by the U.N.
General Assembly on 10 August, 2018 her office tenure is from 01 September,
2018 to 31 August, 2018. The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights
has the objects which are as follows:-
1. Promoting
the enjoyment of human rights universally.
2. Performing
the leading role in respect of the issues of human rights &emphasizing the
importance of human rights at the level of national &international.
3. Promoting
the co-operation of human rights internationally.
4. Doing
the actions in relation to the encouragement & co-ordination for human
rights in the system of United Nations.
5. Promoting
the ratification & implementation universally of international standard
(s).
6. Providing
assistance in the development of new norms
7. Providing
the support to human rights organs & monitoring body (ies) of Treaty (ies).
8. Furnishing
the response (s) for the serious violation of human rights.
9. Undertaking
the preventive action (s) for human rights.
10.
Promoting the establishment of the
national infrastructure for human rights.
11.
Undertaking the field activity (ies) &
operation(s) for human rights
12.
Conferring the education, the service (s) of
information advisory & technical assistance with regard to the human rights
field.[1]
The
United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights is having the great role
& importance for the protection, development, implementation, preservation
and others connected things of human rights for the welfare and interest of all
beyond all kinds of biases, subjecting to the exceptions as required in
accordance with time & circumstances.
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