An international NGO in consultative status with the United Nations Long Description. IHRAAM serves as an umbrella organization to facilitate andcoordinate the efforts of individuals, minorities, indigenous andunrepresented peoples and nations to gain access tointernational law and its enforcement mechanisms concerninghuman rights and the right to self-determination. IHRAAM was awarded Consultative Status by the UnitedNations in 1993. It also holds Associate Status with the UNDepartment of Public Information, and several otherinternational organizations. IHRAAM was founded in 1985 at The Hague Academy ofInternational Law in the Netherlands by African Americanattendees. It was incorporated in 1988 in Chicago andregistered in Canada in 1997, then federally incorporated as anot-for-profit in 2012.