Increased engagement between different stakeholders on human rights topics, strengthened capacity to investigate potentially unlawful killings and document cases of torture, and wider engagement with international human rights mechanisms, as well as steps towards policy reform in areas such as human rights-based approaches to drugs and prison decongestion are just some of the outcomes of a three-year joint United Nations Joint Program that concluded last month.

The UN Joint Program on Human Rights was launched based on UN Human Rights Council resolution 45/33 adopted in 2020.