THE ROLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND It is the mission of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), “to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfi lled.” UNFPA’s 2014-2017 Strategic Plan furthers this agenda by identifying the agency’s goal to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health, secure reproductive rights, and reduce maternal mortality to accelerate progress on the ICPD agenda. UNFPA focuses on improving the lives of adolescents and youth, and women and ensures the integration of human rights, gender equality and population dynamics in its work. With respect to human rights and gender equality, UNFPA focuses on mainstreaming human rights in sexual and reproductive health programming as well as in strengthening national protection systems for advancing reproductive rights, promoting gender equality and non-discrimination, addressing gender-based violence and enhancing accountability. UNFPA is working in the context of its strategic plan to also develop the capacities of National Human Rights Institutions to monitor and protect reproductive rights. THE ROLE OF THE OFFICE OF THE ­UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights law. It is guided in its work by the mandate provided by the General Assembly in resolution 48/141, the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent human rights instruments, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, and the 2005 World Summit Outcome Document. 10 The mandate includes preventing human rights violations, securing respect for all human rights, promoting international cooperation to protect human rights, coordinating related activities throughout the United Nations, and strengthening and streamlining United Nations human rights work. In addition to its mandated responsibilities, it leads efforts to integrate a human rights approach within all work carried out by the United Nations system.