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Useful Information

OHCHR Human Rights Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean region
2008-2009
2006-2007

Country Mandates Established
by the CHR/HRC

Open invitation to Special Procedures

Regional Members of the Human Rights Council:

Argentina 2007
Brazil 2008
Cuba 2009
Ecuador 2007
Guatemala 2008
Mexico 2009
Peru 2008
Uruguay 2009

Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

Calendar of events

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Publications
High Commissioner's Strategic Management Plan 2008-2009

Brochure: Human Rights in Action

Humanitarian Appeal 2008

A Handbook for NGOs

Latin America and the Caribbean Region


Bahamas Cuba Haiti Dominican Republic Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Barbados Grenada Trinidad and Tobago Guyana Suriname Brazil Bolivia Paraguay Uruguay Argentina Chile Peru Ecuador Colombia Venezuela Dominica Saint Lucia Jamaica Belize Mexico Guatemala Honduras El Salvador Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama Latin America and the Caribbean Region

 

Regional Offices and Centres in Latin America

From 2008, the Regional Office for Latin America will be based in Panama and will have a liaison office in Santiago de Chile,where a fully-fledged regional office for South America had been in operation since 2001. The feasibility of re-establishing a second regional office in Santiago will be re-examined in late 2008.
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Contact Information
Headquarters

Capacity Building and Field Operations Branch
Tel. +41 22 928 9118
Geneva, Switzerland

Latin America and the Caribbean Unit
Tel. +41 22 928 9122
Geneva, Switzerland

Regional Offices/Centres
Latin America
2008-2009
2006-2007
Santiago de Chile, Chile)
Av. Kennedy 5454,
Oficina 1401, Vitacura
Santiago de Chile
Tel.: (56 2) 816 0900
Fax: (56 2) 378 5008
Email: cvilla@ohchr.org

Other OHCHR Offices

Colombia
Guatemala
Haiti
Mexico

Links

United Nations Country Teams in Latin America and the Caribbean Region

Other UN links

External links
Organization of American States

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Geneva Conventions

ILO Conventions

Refugee Conventions

International Criminal Court

Interamerican Development Bank  

National Institutions


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