2.4.5 Institutes and Centres

A few NHRIs, like Consultative Commissions, Human Rights Institutes or Centres tend to have a very broad membership from different levels of society. They do not traditionally deal with individual complaints. They differ from Consultative Commissions in that the broad membership does not usually participate directly in decision-making, which is left to a professional staff, but rather set the general policy framework. Centres also tend to focus more of their efforts towards research in human rights.