The UHRI facilitates access to human rights recommendations issued by three key pillars of the

United Nations

human rights monitoring system: the Treaty Bodies established under the international human

rights treaties as well as the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the

Human Rights Council. Learn more about the human rights mechanisms – Click Here

The users can produce overviews of recommendations by region, country, human rights themes,

concerned groups and by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets, as well as to perform

text searches and advanced searches by using filters. For more information and search tips, Click Here

Who is the UHRI for?

UHRI is a central repository of human rights information and aim at assisting States in the

implementation of these recommendations and to facilitate the work of national stakeholders such as

 National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), non-governmental organisations, civil society and 

academics as well as the United Nations in support of such implementation efforts and for human rights

analysis including to identify who may be at risk of being left behind and mapping of systematic,

recurring and unresolved human rights issues.