This article is devoted to the development of human rights advocacy and law-enforcement functions of the federal government authority. The author raises a question on its content and relations. The author gives an esti mate of the role of the federal government authority in order to provide human rights advocacy in the Russian Federation. It is paid attention to the necessity of the development of mechanism of human rights advocacy in general and to specific forms of the government control, providing protection of human rights and freedoms of citizens and organizations within improvement of certain acts of the Russian legislation. A comparative analysis of human rights and law enforcement functions, as the main activities of the federal bodies of executive power, has been carried out. The signs of human rights activity are investigated, its characteristic features, levels of legal mediation are revealed. An analysis of the regulatory framework that ensures the implementation of human rights activities has ensured the release of its species. It was proposed to consider administrative procedures of a human rights orientation, which include: a) the direct human rights function of federal executive bodies; b) the human rights function of the federal bodies of executive power, implemented in cooperation with public structures.