HRAS - Human Rights Advisory System

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A six-step tour of HRAS. Takes about ten minutes.

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Step 1

Meet HRAS

HRAS (Human Rights Advisory System) helps you find and make sense of UN human rights recommendations. You ask a question in plain language. HRAS searches the Universal Human Rights Index (UHRI), picks the relevant recommendations and writes an answer with its sources attached.

It is good at:

Finding recommendations by country, mechanism (UPR, CAT, CERD, CEDAW and others) or theme
Comparing what different countries were asked to do
Summarising concerns before a review or a mission

Think of HRAS as a well-read colleague who never tires of the UHRI, not as the final word. It can misread a record or miss one. Check the sources before you quote anything.

The current deployment loads a sample of UHRI recommendations, not the full index. If a country has no records loaded, HRAS has little to say about it.