“The CNCDH’s enabling law mandates it with powers to advise Government and Parliament on the protection and promotion of human rights. In practice, with its consent, the CNCDH has been mandated with additional thematic responsibilities. 

In 2019, the SCA noted that while these new mandates include responsibilities related to protection, these are of thematic nature and do not provide an explicit broad protection mandate. The SCA reiterates that all NHRIs should be legislatively mandated with specific functions to both promote and protect human rights. The SCA encouraged the CNCDH to continue to broaden its activities in relation to its protection mandate and to advocate for amendments to its enabling law to make its broad protection mandate explicit.

The SCA notes that, in practice, the NHRI has carried out protection work, including through monitoring visits to relevant areas.  

The SCA emphasizes that, to function effectively, all NHRIs should be legislatively mandate with specific functions to both promote and protect human rights.

The SCA encourages the CNCDH to continue to broaden its protection work, to advocate for amendments to its law to make this mandate explicit as well as to ensure all additional responsibilities are legislatively mandated to the institution.

The SCA refers to Paris Principles A.1 and A.2 and to its General Observation 1.2 on ‘Human rights mandate’.”

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