The Lutheran World Federation Office for International Affairs & Human Rights (OIAHR) monitors and reports on the major United Nations human rights forums, and is active in advocacy in many of them. OIAHR acts as a vehicle for engagement by LWF member churches and field programs in the work of the UN human rights program.

The UN human rights system is extremely complex. The purpose of this website is to assist members of the LWF family to understand it better, to encourage them to make practical use of the UN human rights mechanisms in their work for human dignity and social justice around the world. OIAHR particularly recommends the UN human rights treaty bodies and special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights as useful entry points for the work of the LWF in the field of human rights.