In the article, in the context of the analysis of scientific views on the categories of subject, subject of law, subject of legal relations, subject of human rights activities contained in modern philosophical and legal literature, the author’s understanding of the category of subject of state human rights activities is given. The characteristics of the subject of state human rights activities have been studied. The following are considered as its essential properties: belonging to public authority, government funding, legitimacy, as well as professionalism, competence, legality and consistency. A classification of subjects of state human rights activities has been developed. They are differentiated according to the degree of specification of their human rights function in the current legislation - into general and special; according to the form of constructing human rights legal norms in normative legal acts regulating the activities of subjects of state human rights activities - those that are based exclusively on human rights principles or are endowed with specific human rights powers; according to the forms of human rights powers - judicial, extrajudicial and quasi-judicial; by scale of activity - federal, regional and local; according to the range of persons who fall under the protection of the subject of state human rights protection activities - universal and specialized. It is proposed to develop a strategy for state human rights activities in the Russian Federation, in which, in particular, to determine the role and place of the subjects of this activity, which will improve the coordination and efficiency of their work.
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