(2010-12) Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/16/20)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) • 2010 • 17 pages

Summary — Annual report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on OHCHR's 2010 activities across six thematic priorities, including the emergency deployment of 15 staff to Haiti's protection crisis after the earthquake.

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Key Findings

In December 2010 OHCHR was running or supporting 56 field presences worldwide, including the human rights component of MINUSTAH in Haiti. In response to the protection crisis after the January 2010 earthquake, OHCHR deployed a total of 15 staff over six months to monitor human rights in camps for internally displaced persons and to lead the Protection Cluster in Haiti. By end-2010, 143 of 192 member States had been reviewed under the universal periodic review with full participation, and the special procedures system counted 41 mandates with 61 mandate holders. The report warns that growing mandated activity coincides with zero regular budget growth and shrinking extrabudgetary resources.

Full Description

This report to the sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council updates the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) during 2010 across its six thematic priorities: strengthening human rights mechanisms, countering discrimination, pursuing economic, social and cultural rights, human rights in migration, combating impunity and strengthening the rule of law, and human rights in armed conflict. It reviews the Human Rights Council review process, the universal periodic review, special procedures and treaty bodies, and describes 56 OHCHR field presences worldwide. Haiti features in the Office's rapid response and humanitarian work: in January 2010 OHCHR developed a strategy to support the human rights section of MINUSTAH in the protection crisis that erupted after the earthquake, deploying 15 staff over six months to monitor human rights in camps for internally displaced persons and to lead the Protection Cluster, one of the clusters OHCHR leads alongside Nepal, the occupied Palestinian territory and the Pacific. The report is global in scope, with Haiti as one of several country engagements.

Topics

Geography

Time Coverage

2010 — 2010

Keywords

A/HRC/16/20, OHCHR, High Commissioner for Human Rights, annual report, Protection Cluster, MINUSTAH, rapid response, universal periodic review, special procedures, treaty bodies, earthquake protection crisis

Entities

OHCHR, Human Rights Council, MINUSTAH, Inter-Agency Standing Committee, General Assembly, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Global Protection Cluster Working Group, United Nations Secretary-General

Notes

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