Chapter 1
Introducing National Human
Rights Institutions

Chapter 2
Models of NHRIs

Chapter 3
Roles and Responsabilities of
NHRIs

Chapter 4
The Rule of Law and the NHRI

Chapter 5
NHRIs, Development and
Democratic Governance

Chapter 6
Situating NHRI Support in the UN Planning & Programming Process

Chapter 7
Pre-establishment Phase of NHRIs

Chapter 8
Establishing NHRIs

Chapter 9
Consolidation Phase:
Strengthening the Mature NHRI

Chapter 10
Paris Principles and Accreditation

1.2.7 NHRIs and the protection of specific groups

NHRIs also address issues related to thematic issues and to particular categories of specific persons/groups, issues that cut across civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, and may involve issues where the rights at stake are highly contested:

  • Women11
  • Children
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Persons with disabilities12
  • Persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities
  • Refugees and internally displaced persons
  • Persons with disabilities, including HIV/AIDs
  • Migrant workers
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons

For further discussion of the role of NHRIs in the protection of vulnerable persons, see Chapter 3.

 

 

 

 

 

11 CEDAW. See General Recommendation No. 6 (seventh session, 1988).

12 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. For a discussion of the role played by NHRIs in this convention, see Stein and Lord, “The United Nations Convention on The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities as a Vehicle for Social Transformation”.