It is Human Rights Day

What does the UN agency for Human Rights do for individuals? Interview with Dina Rossbacher, Chief, Special Petitions Section

The UN Brief interviewed Dina Rossbacher, Chief, UN Human Rights, to discuss how individuals can lodge a complain, how procedures work, and what is the future of the petitions section of the UN Human Rights Treaties’ Bodies division.

How Can You Address the UN Human Rights Agency?

The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, OHCHR, the UN agency that protects the human rights system, and addresses human rights violations among countries, has also a special procedures division within the Human Rights Council that receives individuals’ complaints of breaches of UN conventions and treaties.

An individual can go directly to the OHCHR section on petitions and urgent actions to lodge a complain.

UN Human Rights Day

To mark the international Human Rights Day we interviewed Dina Rossbacher, Chief, Treaty Bodies division of the UN agency for human rights, to discuss the procedures and how they have been managing complaints in the last decades, since the Universal Declaration for Human Ri…