Occupation Atlashuman rights officer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8801ef16-92a4-4889-8f80-9b78206c7ec0
human rights officer
Human rights officers investigate and handle human rights violations, as well as develop plans to reduce violations and to ensure compliance to human rights legislation. They investigate complaints by examining information and interviewing victims and perpetrators, and communicate with organisations involved with human rights activities.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (12)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- advise on legal decisions
- conduct research interview
- establish collaborative relations
- facilitate official agreement
- international human rights law
- investigate human rights violations
- promote human rights implementation
- promote social awareness
- scientific research methodology
- social justice
- speak different languages
- support victims of human rights violations
Optional (19)
- advise on conflict management
- apply conflict management
- compile legal documents
- coordinate humanitarian aid missions
- court procedures
- hear witness accounts
- international law
- liaise with local authorities
- maintain relations with local representatives
- maintain relationships with government agencies
- monitor political conflicts
- observe confidentiality
- perform political negotiation
- political science
- promote social change
- provide legal advice
- provide testimony in court hearings
- show intercultural awareness
- support harmed social service users
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