International Human Rights Association of American Minorities

IHRAAM serves as an u

brella organization to facilitate and

coordinate the efforts of

individuals, minorities,

and

unrepresented peoples and nations to gain access to

international law and its enforcement mechanisms.

In addition to Consultative Status with ECOSOC, IHRAAM also

holds Associate Status

with the UN

Department

of Public

Information,

several other international

organizations.

IHRAAM was founded in 1985 at The Hague Academy of

International Law in the

Netherlands by African

American

attendees

. It was incorporated in 1988 in Chicago,

1996 in

London, and

egistered in Canada in 1997, then federally

incorporated as a not-for-profit in 2011

"I cannot imagine how difficult and futile (HRC review of state

reports

under the

ICCPR)

would be if we did not

have the active

cooperation

of NGOs like yours. I only

hope that

the

International

Human Rights

Association of

American Minorities will

continue

work with

the

Human Rights Committee in the protection of

Human

Rights

worldwide."

Francisco Jose Aguilar-Urbina

Chairman, Human Rights Committee, United Nations

"The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and

the

Center for Human

Rights attach great

importance to the

protection of

minority groups in all countries.

this

regard, we

encourage

IHRAAM's efforts to

promote and protect the

fundamental

human

rights of African- Americans in the United

States. My Office and

the

Centre

stand fully

prepared to provide

you with all the necessary

information

and

mechanisms

available to

the

United Nations human

rights system."

Jose Ayala-Lasso, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

letter to IHRAAM,

October 5, 1995

IHRAAM's initiatives constitute a very important contribution to

the

mobilisation that

the

crusade for the respect of

human rights

implies."

El Hadj Amadou Niang, Conseiller Juridique

African Commission on Human & People's Rights, The Gambia

An international NGO in consultative status with the United Nations

IHRAAM logo by Aisha Kly