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

Nominations Process that Involves a National Parliament: Timor Leste


Example: Nominations process that involves a National Parliament: Timor Leste

The law establishing the Office of the Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice of East Timor provides in articles 12 and 13 for selection criteria and a process that involves National Parliament.

The National Parliament shall appoint the Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice through absolute majority votes of its members on active duty.

The same law also sets, in article 21, stringent conditions on which a member may be dismissed:

The Ombudsman for Human Rights and Justice can be removed from office by a two-third (2/3) majority in the National Parliament…