LUO Yanhua*

 

Abstract: The United Nations (UN) has always been a proactive promoter of mainstreaming human rights, while the Charter of the United Nations is the cornerstone and starting point for this endeavor. The mainstreaming of human rights is a principle and direction of UN reform, as the UN has promoted it through human rights institutions reform and institutional building. Reviewing the UN’s many years of practice in promoting the mainstreaming of human rights, it is evident that its various departments and agencies have formed a united front already, which is specifically manifested in the following ways: The UN Secretary-General puts forward reform plans to promote the mainstreaming of human rights and issues relevant initiatives and calls to action; the mechanism of mainstreaming of human rights provides institutional and financial support; the UN Development Group (later renamed the UN Sustainable Development Group) is the main platform for the UN to promote the mainstreaming of human rights; the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council are the main implementing bodies for the UN to promote the mainstreaming of human rights; and other UN agencies actively respond to and implement the requirements of the mainstreaming of human rights in their respective areas of work.

 

Keywords: United Nations · human rights · mainstreaming of human rights