Strengthening of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

A/HRC/RES/4/6View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A document of the Human Rights Council, published in 2007.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 20	Human rights	433

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Programme 20	Human rights	433	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Advisory Services Capacity Building Developing Countries Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Financial Resources Geographical Distribution Human Rights Human Rights Advancement Inter-Agency Cooperation International Cooperation Personnel Management Resources Allocation Right to Development Staffing Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

Emphasizes that the Office of the High Commissioner is a common office for all and should therefore reflect a diversity of backgrounds and, in this context, recalls that the Office of the High Commissioner, as part of the United Nations Secretariat, is governed by Article 101 of the Charter of the United Nations concerning staffing policies, which is essential for ensuring the implementation of the principles of universality, objectivity and non-selectivity in the consideration of human rights issues;

Requests the Secretary-General to give due consideration to geographical rotation when appointing the High Commissioner, as set out in General Assembly resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993;

Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to continue the current practice of making the best use of available human rights expertise relevant to and, as appropriate, from the regions where activities are undertaken;

Calls upon the High Commissioner to take into account all relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Council in planning the activities of the Office and requests her to reflect them appropriately in her annual reports to the Council and the Assembly;

Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner to ensure transparency in its activities and operation through a process of continued dialogue and consultations with Member States through, inter alia, regular briefings and taking into account relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Council;

Requests the High Commissioner in this regard to provide all States with adequate financial and budgetary information on the Office by, inter alia, holding informal briefings on voluntary contributions, including their share of the overall full-cost budget of the human rights programme, and their allocation;

Reiterates the need to ensure that all necessary financial, material and personnel resources are provided from the regular budget of the United Nations without delay to the United Nations human rights programme to enable the Office of the High Commissioner to carry out its mandates efficiently, effectively and expeditiously;

Welcomes the voluntary contributions to the Office of the High Commissioner, in particular those from developing countries, and in this context calls upon donors to take into account the High Commissioner’s call for unearmarked contributions;

Reaffirms that the tasks of the High Commissioner include promoting and protecting the realization of the right to development and that the Office of the High Commissioner should devote adequate resources and staff to its follow-up, with a view to enhancing activities of the Office for its effective realization;

Calls upon the High Commissioner to continue to emphasize the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights in the activities of her Office and, in that regard, encourages the High Commissioner to continue to strengthen her relationship with the appropriate bodies, funds and specialized agencies of the United Nations;

Also calls upon the High Commissioner to continue to strengthen the management structure of her Office, including human resource management, and to improve the responsiveness of her Office in all priority areas, especially economic, social and cultural rights, which require particular research and analytical capacity;

Requests the High Commissioner to enhance international cooperation for the promotion and protection of all human rights and to engage in a dialogue with all Governments in the implementation of her mandate with a view to securing respect for all human rights;

Declares that advisory services and technical cooperation provided at the request of Governments with a view to developing national capacities and national ownership in the field of human rights constitute one of the most efficient and effective means of promoting and protecting all human rights and democracy;

Emphasizes the need for an increase in the allocation of resources from within the United Nations regular budget for advisory services and technical cooperation in the field of human rights;

Invites the High Commissioner to continue to provide information on cooperation with other United Nations bodies and also invites her to make available information concerning agreements with other United Nations bodies and their implementation, in an open and transparent manner, as appropriate;

Requests the High Commissioner to take further measures to implement the recommendations of the Joint Inspection Unit with a view to improving the geographic balance of the staff composition of her Office at all levels;

Emphasizes in this regard the need to take into account the request made by General Assembly resolution 61/244 of 22 December 2006 that the Secretary-General present to the Assembly, in consultation with the Office of the High Commissioner, proposals to address the imbalance in the geographic distribution of the staff in that Office;

Again invites the High Commissioner to submit information pursuant to the present resolution in her annual report to the Council;

Decides to consider the implementation of the present resolution at a future session under the relevant agenda item.

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