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IHRAAM HUMAN RIGHTS
MONITORING CAMPAIGNS
IHRAAM ACTIVITIES AT
THE UNITED NATIONS
IHRAAM  ADDRESSES THE UN'S  
UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW
FOR INDIA
India was reviewed for the
second time by the
Universal Periodic Review  
Working Group at the 13th
UPR session on 24 May
2012.  IHRAAM again
participated as it concerns
the situation of Kashmir.
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The UN Human Rights Council
IHRAAM interventions to the UN
Human Rights Council’s 19th
session addressed issues on:
Agenda item 3:
Indigenous Nations in Canada Face
Systemically Enforced Non-development

Agenda Item 9:
Discriminatory Incarceration Severely
Impacts the African American National
Minority

IHRAAM interventions to the UN
Human Rights Council’s 18th
session addressed issues on:

Agenda item 3:
Canadian First Nations Disproportionate
Placement in Foster Care: Three Times the
Level of Residential School Placements at
Their Peak

Agenda Item 4:
Has R2P Become Right to Pillage?

Agenda Item 9:
The African American National Minority
Remains Significantly Less Well Off Than
White Americans With Trends Downward
Despite High Visibility of Black Individuals
Left to right:  Atty. Musa Dan Fodio, Dr. Tyson King-Meadows, Diana Collier Kly, Cynthia McKinney,
Vernellia Randall, Judge Leonard Murray, Dr. Farid I. Muhammad.
THE LOOMING CRISIS IN
AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION:  
K1-12 SCHOOL CLOSINGS
HBCUs LOSING IDENTITY
AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE HEADING IN NEW DIRECTION?
IHRAAM CHICAGO CONFERENCE, East-West University, April 2012
On April 20-21, 2012, key representatives of the African American popular leadership and
intelligentsia broke new ground in Chicago at the IHRAAM-sponsored conference titled
FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND SELF-DETERMINATION? Speakers and
attendees flew in from all corners–California, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, New York,
South Carolina, Washington, DC, Virginia and Canada. The atmosphere in the
conference hall at East-West University was electrifying, as speaker after speaker added
new planks to attendees’ understanding of where the African American struggle had
been, where it was now, and the direction it had to go to move forward.  There was no
disagreement from either speakers or floor on the general direction proposed by the title
of the conference:  that the African American struggle must now move on from civil rights
to human rights and self-determination.

The panelists included former Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party Candidate for
President, Cynthia McKinney; Law Professors Vernellia Randall and Carla D. Pratt;
Political Science Professor and President of the National Conference of Black Political
Scientists, Dr. Tyson King-Meadows; representatives of major and historic popular
African American organizations, Attorney Ava Muhammad (representing Minister Louis
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam), Attorney Chokwe Lumumba (National Chairman of
the New Afrikan People’s Organization and a duly elected councilman from Jackson, MS),
John Boyd (Founder of the National Black Farmers Association), Queen Quet,
Chieftess of the Gullah-Geechee Nation;  Henry English (president of Black United Fund
of Illinois); Attorney Standish Willis (leading civil rights attorney having argued before
the UN Inter-American C omission on Human Rights); and international law professors
Francis A. Boyle and Daniel Turp (former Canadian member of parliament for the Bloc
Quebecois).  more
Teachers, students, and parents braved the snow to
rally against school closures outside City Hall on Jan.
27 to protest closure of Paul Robeson High School.  
African American schools are closing at an alarming
rate, while the survival of HBCUs as a minority
institution is in jeopardy.
INDIGENOUS NATIONS ENTRAPPED
IN BC/CANADA TREATY PROCESS
BY NEGOTIATING LOANS
Most of the indigenous nations whose territories lie
within the Canadian Province of British Columbia have
no treaties with Canada.  The loans that were extended
to them in order to pursue the negotiating process
have instead taken on the appearance of an
entrapment.  Valued in the millions of dollars, these
loans must be repaid by the indigenous nations if Final
Agreements with Canada are not achieved, and/or if
they wish to withdraw from the process.  The longer the
negotiations carry on, the deeper the debt suffered by
the indigenous nations—but no escape from the
negotiation process is possible, as the loans would
then have to be repaid—an impossibility for most
deeply impoverished indigenous nations.  Canada
appears to be seeking extinguishment of sovereign
title and rights as a part of any Final Agreement.
IHRAAM participates in the HRC's
UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW
scrutinizing state behavior in
relation to their legal human
rights obligations as signatories
to the international human rights
treaties.
INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION GIVES CANADA ONE
MONTH TO RESPOND TO IHRAAM PETITION
On August 22, 2011, the  Inter-American Human
Rights Commission (IACHR) of the Organization
of American States (OAS) advised IHRAAM that a
Note had been passed to the Canadian
Government, forwarding pertinent parts of its
2007 Petition on behalf of Loni Edmond, Lil’wat
mother,whose children were taken from her by
the BC Ministry of Children and Family
Development. The Lil’wat do not have a treaty
with Canada.  Canada responded with a 20-age
document and 10 attachments.  The IACHR
IHRAAM 2000 SURVEY OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN VIEWS ON
SELF-DETERMINATION TO BE
EXPANDED IN 2012
Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights (IACHR)
See left.
ARBITRARY DETENTION AND DEMOCRACIES
IHRAAM PEOPLE'S BUREAU
Addressing the human and self-determination rights
of national minorities, peoples, and indigenous and
unrepresented nations.
AFRICAN AMERICANS
Left to right:  Mr. Ismail Khan, Journalist,  Dr. Joseph Wronka, Professor of Social Work, Barrister
Majid Tramboo, IHRAAM's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva,  Prof. Nazir Shawl (left),
Chairman of Justice Foundationl, Alfred de Zayas, Member of IHRAAM Directorate and UN
Independent Expert, Ronald Barnes, Chair of Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition (IPNC)
 The UN Permanent Forum
on Indigenous Issues (PFII)
DALITS
GULLAH-GEECHEE NATION
 The 2012 session of the UN Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues scheduled
for May 7-3`, 2012 more
KASHMIR
 On March 6, 2012, IHRAAM in association with Kashmir Centre.EU, hosted an Interactive Dialogue &
Roundtable at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.  The event entitled Arbitrary Detention & Democracies
discussed practices of arbitrary detention in conflict where it leads to torture, execution and other human
rights abuses.  More
LIL'WAT NATION
International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM), 101-5170 Dunster Road, Suite 117, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6M4, Canada  Tel: 250-591-4241 Fax: 877-613-7868 communications@ihraam.org
requested that IHRAAM submit its Observations on the Canada Response, which were then
transmittedto Canada, with a further IACHR request for a response from Canada within one month.  
On April 2nd, 2012, IHRAAM made an additional document submission related to the exhaustion of
domestic remedies.  On May 9th the IACHR advised IHRAAM that its April 2nd submission on the
exhaustion of domestic remedies had been passed on to Canada, giving it one month to respond.  
Canada has yet to respond to the second and third IACHR requests..
A findings of a survey of African American views in
relation to African American self-determination,
undertaken by Dr. Farid I. Muhammad under the
auspices of IHRAAM in the year 2000, was presented
at the recent IHRAAM Conference, "From Civil Rights
to Human Rights and the Right to Self-determination?"
 International lawyer professors Francis A. Boyle and
Daniel Turp advised the conference that such a survey
was an important factor in the determination of African
American desires in that regard.  A second survey but
much expanded survey will be undertaken by Dr.
Muhammad in 2012, along with other participating
academics.