Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Regional Office for Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' (OHCHR) Regional Office for Central Asia (ROCA) was established in 2008 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and currently covers all five countries in the region: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

ROCA works with countries in the region to strengthen the capacity of national governments, national human right institutions, non-governmental organizations, human rights defenders and civil society activists to increase compliance of national laws and practices with human rights standards and improve protection against human rights violations, in particular violations relating to fundamental freedoms, non-discrimination, freedom from torture, the right to a fair trial and independence of judges and lawyers.