Parliaments and Human Rights: A Self-Assessment Toolkit was jointly prepared by OHCHR and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). The toolkit seeks to help parliaments better integrate human rights into their work and empower parliamentarians as champions of human rights for their constituents. The toolkit is designed to be relevant to parliaments across all political systems, regardless of their size or location. It introduces the main international norms, treaties and mechanisms which underpin human rights and explains how parliaments can implement them at the national level.