IHRAAM Objectives:

  • EDUCATION: To promote public and governmental awareness of all legal instruments for human rights protection as subscribed to by
    the United Nations and international law , including  related studies and documentation  that address the right to self-determination of
    internal minorities  peoples, and unrepresented nations in general.

  • MONITORING: To monitor state adherence to international treaties, engage in human rights monitoring on the ground, and provide
    training of human rights monitors for NGOs.  

  • INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RECOURSE: To facilitate the understanding and access of minorities, peoples and unrepresented nations to
    all avenues of protection under international law

  • To provide information  to minorities, peoples and unrepresented nations seeking to achieve their right to self-determination

  • To encourage and facilitate the creation of new instruments and mechanisms related to the right to self-determination.

    IHRAAM Primary Activities

  • IHRAAM attempts to promote international human rights, and the rights of minorities, unrepresented nations and peoples in particular,
    by all available means of publicity, such as publications (books and newsletter), press releases, speaking and teaching
    engagements,     radio and TV interviews, conferences, facilitation of UN Briefings, and by mutual aid, association with and
    representation to organizations and human rights groups worldwide.

  • Submission of Alternative Reports to UN Treaty monitoring bodies in relation to the Universal Periodic Review

  • ·Submission of Briefs and Petitions to the United Nations, to the Inter American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of
    American States, and other appropriate international tribunals and political fora through the IHRAAM International Legal Clinic.

  • ·Submission of Interventions to and cooperation with all UN organs such as the UN Working Groups, the Human Rights Council, the
    Forum on Minority Issues, UNESCO.

  • ·Provision of information of concern to minorities, peoples and unrepresented nations seeking to achieve their right to self-determinatio
    .through the IHRAAM People'sInformation  Bureau

  • Training of Human Rights Monitors

  • Formation and facilitation of an international mechanism to address the issue of self-determination
An international NGO in consultative status with the United Nations

    IHRAAM serves as an umbrella 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, and several other international organizations.

    IHRAAM was founded in 1983 at The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands by African
    American attendees, Dr. Y. Kly, Dr. Charles Knox and Dr. Yvonne King.  

    It was incorporated in 1988 in Chicago, in 1996 in London, and registered in Canada in 1997, then
    federally incorporated as a not-for-profit in 2012.