ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author briefly notes the conditions required for the establishment of a national system of human rights protection. He situates the place of the institutions traditionally responsible for guaranteeing these rights. The author then examines the role of new institutions set up specifically for this purpose. Responsibility for ensuring the conditions and specific resources for implementing human rights within states lies above all with the executive and its organs, which operate in the framework of government and various government departments. Commissions are generally able to carry out various promotional functions simultaneously through developing information and documentation and also through awareness-raising activities and support for human rights education and training programmes. Human rights protection at the national level depends on the existence of the rule of law and a democratic system which make possible the establishment and effective functioning of the institutions.
