Enforcement of Human Rights

The enforcement mechanism of human rights is of two kinds, first one is the Charter-based bodies and second one is the Treaty-based bodies. The UN Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and UN Special Rapporteur are Charter-based bodies. At present 60 UN Special Rapporteurs, they are independent experts who submit their reports on assigned issue areas or in country specific. UPR procedure covers each and every state in time-bound manner. Besides, nine human rights treaty bodies oversight the compliance of treaty obligations by the state concerned. Participation of NGOs in the Human Rights Council, UPR, UN Rapporteurs and treaty monitoring bodies prescribed within their rules of procedure.