National Human Rights Institutes: Protect and Promote Human Rights Globally - The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
A national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent and specialised institution promoting, protecting and monitoring human rights. Such institutions exist in a number* of countries. To become an NHRI, an institute must be compliant with the so-called UN Paris Principles. Just how compliant an NHRI is, is revealed by its status. It has either an A- or B-status or none at all. Sweden’s status is currently B.
