Is ohchr.org legit or a scam?
Official UN Human Rights Office website with clean security signals, valid SSL, and confirmed UN registration in Switzerland.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
ohchr.org is the authentic domain of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, headquartered in Geneva. Our antivirus network shows zero malicious detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP has zero abuse reports, and SSL is valid and current. The domain is 24+ years old (registered 8945 days ago) with a clean reputation across all feeds. Independent sources including Wikipedia and Media Bias Fact Check confirm this as the official OHCHR site and rate it highly for factual reporting. Business registration data confirms it as an active UN department established by General Assembly resolution in 1993. No scam reports, phishing complaints, or impersonation indicators exist in any public record.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ohchr.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- ohchr.org is the official website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), a department of the UN Secretariat established in 1993.
- Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland (Palais Wilson), with a New York office; led by High Commissioner Volker Türk.
- Mandate is to promote and protect all human rights worldwide, as per UNGA resolution 48/141 and the Vienna Declaration.
- The site provides official information on human rights mechanisms, treaty bodies, complaint procedures, publications, and reports (including on cyber-scam trafficking in Southeast Asia).
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, or negative reviews found associating ohchr.org with phishing, malware, or impersonation scams.
- Recognized as a credible, high factual reporting source by independent reviewers; active UN entity with no dissolution or legitimacy issues.
- UN has issued general warnings about scams falsely claiming association with the United Nations, but these do not target or involve the official ohchr.org domain.
Official department of the United Nations Secretariat, established by UN General Assembly resolution 48/141 in December 1993; headquarters in Geneva (Palais Wilson), with office in New York.
Our research confirmed ohchr.org as the official website of the UN Human Rights Office, a department of the UN Secretariat established in 1993 and headquartered in Geneva. Independent sources including Wikipedia and Media Bias Fact Check recognize it as a credible, high-factual-reporting resource. No scam reports, fraud complaints, phishing indicators, or impersonation scams were found associating this domain with any malicious activity. The UN has issued general warnings about scams falsely claiming UN association, but these do not target or involve the official ohchr.org domain.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2024-2027).
- Links to 7 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ohchr.org/
- 2301https://ohchr.org/
- 3403https://www.ohchr.org/en/ohchr_homepagecross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on ohchr.org and not a lookalike like o-hchr.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on ohchr.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ohchr.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ohchr.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 267 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ohchr.org is 24.5 years old, registered on 12/21/2001 through Network Solutions, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report ohchr.org as clean.
- No. ohchr.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ohchr.org resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. ohchr.org sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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