We witnessed profound geopolitical divisions threatening peace and sustainability. The world continued to grapple with the rapidly intensifying climate emergency, soaring rates of poverty, gaping inequalities and the human rights reversals triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As humanity navigates these complex and interconnected crises, we face crucial decisions on how, and when, to act. Now more than ever, we must remember that we have more in common than we may think.
This is the underlying notion that gave birth to human rights – the idea of a shared humanity, that every individual has inherent rights and freedoms, and that we all bear responsibility to care for one another.
Over the coming years, it is my sincere hope that we can build on our past achievements, unleashing an even greater potential for human rights to achieve peace, freedom and a sustainable future for everybody.
United Nations
Human Rights Report 2022
The UN Human Rights Report 2022 presents the progress achieved in 2022 against the targets set out in the OHCHR Management Plan 2018-2021, which was extended through 2023, and includes an overview of management, funding and expenditure as well as detailed results from the field and headquarters.
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Volker Türk
High Commissioner for Human Rights
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Foreword
“As we mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this year – one of the most pivotal documents in modern history – we have an opportunity to truly revitalize its promise of human rights, for everyone.”
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Chapters
Major Indigenous water rights victory in Oaxaca (Mexico)
People share priorities in first review of Guinea-Bissau’s Sustainable Development Goal
Ukraine: Behind the numbers
“We’re all made of the same ingredients”: MyGreat Story brings the UN Human Rights #StandUp4Migrants initiative to Australia
The long road to comprehensive reparations inBolivia
Ensuring the meaningful participation of children and youth in Asia in climate justice
Senegal: Civil society and human rights defenders mobilize for a transparent election
Access to justice and cultural change in Mauritania
Equipping young people to know, claim and defend their rights (South Africa)
UN Human Rights around the world
2
Headquarters
19
Country / Stand-alone Offices / Human Rights Missions
12
Regional Offices / Centres
11
Human rights components of UN Peace / Political Missions
53
Human Rights Advisers established under the framework of the UNSDG
9
Other types of field presences
Mexico
Guatemala
Honduras
El Salvador
Costa Rica
Belize
Dominican Republic
Suriname
Jamaica
Venezuela
Haiti (BINUH)
South America
(Santiago de Chile) Central America
(Panama City) Bolivia Argentina Uruguay Brazil Paraguay Peru
Peru Ecuador Barbados Trinidad and Tobago Guyana Bosnia
Herzegovina Montenegro Serbia Europe (Brussels) Geneva Ukraine Republic of Moldova Bangladesh Nepal Sri Lanka Maldives Malaysia Cambodia Pacific (Suva) Timor-Leste Philippines OHCHR Field-based structure
(Seoul, Republic of Korea) Mongolia Central Asia
(Bishkek) Kosovo
(UNMIK) Russian Federation Republic of North Macedonia South Caucasus
(Tbilisi) Middle East and
North Africa (Beirut) Jordan Saudi Arabia Yemen UN Human
Rights Training and
Documentation Centre
for South-West Asia
and the Arab Region
(Doha) Iraq (UNAMI) Lybia (UNSMIL) Burundi
Rwanda Uganda South Sudan
(UNMISS) Southern
Africa
(Pretoria) Bahrain Lesotho Zimbabwe Malawi Madagascar Kenya Somalia (UNSOM) East Africa (Addis Ababa) UN Sub-Regional
Center for Human
Rights and
Democracy in
Central Asia
(Youndé) Central
Africa
Republic
(MINUSCA) Democratic
Republic
of the Congo
(MONUSCO) Nigeria Liberia Guinea Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
G5 Sahel Niger
G5 Sahel Mali
(MINUSMA)
G5 Sahel Gambia West Africa (Dakar) Sudan
(UNITAMS)
Chad
G5 Sahel
Mauritania
G5 Sahel
Tunisia Syria - based in Beirut State of
Palestine New York Samoa Papua New Guinea Kazahkastan Equatorial Guinea The Republic of the Congo Mozambique
Mozambique Eswatini Zambia Guinea-Bissau Sierra Leone Uzbekistan Tajikistan Afghanistan (UNAMA) Colombia South-East Asia (Bangkok) Myanmar – based in Bangkok
Myanmar – based in Bangkok
(Santiago de Chile) Central America
(Panama City) Bolivia Argentina Uruguay Brazil Paraguay Peru
Peru Ecuador Barbados Trinidad and Tobago Guyana Bosnia
Herzegovina Montenegro Serbia Europe (Brussels) Geneva Ukraine Republic of Moldova Bangladesh Nepal Sri Lanka Maldives Malaysia Cambodia Pacific (Suva) Timor-Leste Philippines OHCHR Field-based structure
(Seoul, Republic of Korea) Mongolia Central Asia
(Bishkek) Kosovo
(UNMIK) Russian Federation Republic of North Macedonia South Caucasus
(Tbilisi) Middle East and
North Africa (Beirut) Jordan Saudi Arabia Yemen UN Human
Rights Training and
Documentation Centre
for South-West Asia
and the Arab Region
(Doha) Iraq (UNAMI) Lybia (UNSMIL) Burundi
Rwanda Uganda South Sudan
(UNMISS) Southern
Africa
(Pretoria) Bahrain Lesotho Zimbabwe Malawi Madagascar Kenya Somalia (UNSOM) East Africa (Addis Ababa) UN Sub-Regional
Center for Human
Rights and
Democracy in
Central Asia
(Youndé) Central
Africa
Republic
(MINUSCA) Democratic
Republic
of the Congo
(MONUSCO) Nigeria Liberia Guinea Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
G5 Sahel Niger
G5 Sahel Mali
(MINUSMA)
G5 Sahel Gambia West Africa (Dakar) Sudan
(UNITAMS)
Chad
G5 Sahel
Mauritania
G5 Sahel
Tunisia Syria - based in Beirut State of
Palestine New York Samoa Papua New Guinea Kazahkastan Equatorial Guinea The Republic of the Congo Mozambique
Mozambique Eswatini Zambia Guinea-Bissau Sierra Leone Uzbekistan Tajikistan Afghanistan (UNAMA) Colombia South-East Asia (Bangkok) Myanmar – based in Bangkok
Myanmar – based in Bangkok
