UNDP-OHCHR Toolkit

module overview

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

module overview

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

8.5.4 IDPs, Refugees and Stateless Persons

Many of the structural issues discussed above regarding strategic planning and the creation of areas of specialisation for gender apply to this area as well. Determining whether this is a priority area for which specialized support and capacity should be developed will emerge from the strategic planning process.

Table 2: NHRIs and IDP's refugees and stateless persons

Millennium Development Goal	Key Related Human Rights Standards
Capacity areas to develop at the Establishment Phase	Establish cooperation programs or links with humanitarian organizations, especially those where UNCTs can facilitate contacts and liaison.
	Establish monitoring programs as a basis for effective assistance programmes (for example, monitoring of the right to food, shelter, health care and education of vulnerable groups).
	Create mechanisms so the NHRI can receive and handle complaints from IDPs, refugees and stateless persons.
	Develop a promotional campaign or strategy to foster cordial relations between refugees and the host communities.
	Establish capacity to review legislation on citizenship and nationality that could lead to statelessness and urge governments to establish an efficient registration mechanism.

Table 3: Disability and NHRIs9

Millennium Development Goal	Key Related Human Rights Standards
Disability Convention	If the NHRI is designated as (one of) the independent national mechanisms to promote, protect and monitor the implementation of the Disability Convention, ensure that specialized capacity is built in across all functional areas of the NHRI's work.
Disability Convention	Even if an NHRI has not been specifically designated, it still may have general jurisdiction to promote, protect and monitor disability issues. NHRIs should support the implementation of the Disability Convention: promotion: education, awareness-raising, encouraging further and better implementation of the Convention; protection: assisting with and taking cases, strategic litigation; monitoring: reflecting periodically on domestic implementation and commenting on or proposing legislation that best fits local circumstances, in close consultation with NGOs and persons with disabilities.
HR Policy	Develop internal policies to ensure the accommodation of staff with disabilities (See section 8.2 on human resources).
HR Policy	Ensure that NHRI premises, services and publications are accessible to persons with disabilities.