A/RES/48/141
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General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Commission on Human
Rights, the High Commissioner’s responsibilities shall be:
(a)
To promote and protect the effective enjoyment by all of all
civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights;
(b)
To carry out the tasks assigned to him/her by the competent bodies
of the United Nations system in the field of human rights and to make
recommendations to them with a view to improving the promotion and protection
of all human rights;
(c)
To promote and protect the realization of the right to development
and to enhance support from relevant bodies of the United Nations system for
this purpose;
To provide, through the Centre for Human Rights of the Secretariat
(d)
and other appropriate institutions, advisory services and technical and
financial assistance, at the request of the State concerned and, where
appropriate, the regional human rights organizations, with a view to
supporting actions and programmes in the field of human rights;
(e)
To coordinate relevant United Nations education and public
information programmes in the field of human rights;
(f)
To play an active role in removing the current obstacles and in
meeting the challenges to the full realization of all human rights and in
preventing the continuation of human rights violations throughout the world,
as reflected in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action; 4/
(g)
To engage in a dialogue with all Governments in the implementation
of his/her mandate with a view to securing respect for all human rights;
(h)
To enhance international cooperation for the promotion and
protection of all human rights;
To coordinate the human rights promotion and protection activities
(i)
throughout the United Nations system;
(j)
To rationalize, adapt, strengthen and streamline the United
Nations machinery in the field of human rights with a view to improving its
efficiency and effectiveness;
(k)
To carry out overall supervision of the Centre for Human Rights;
5.
Requests the High Commissioner for Human Rights to report annually
on his/her activities, in accordance with his/her mandate, to the Commission
on Human Rights and, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General
Assembly;
6.
Decides that the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
shall be located at Geneva and shall have a liaison office in New York;
7.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide appropriate staff and
resources, within the existing and future regular budgets of the United
Nations, to enable the High Commissioner to fulfil his/her mandate, without
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