{"id":2011,"date":"2009-09-05T02:11:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T00:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:00:20","slug":"international-association-of-official-human-rights-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Promoting Civil and Human Rights Around The World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; IAOHRA was founded in 1949 in New York. The International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies is a non-profit membership organization with its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The primary members are statutory human rights and human relations agencies with authority for enforcing a variety of human and civil rights laws in their respective jurisdictions &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/\">full text Homepage<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/new\/members.htm\">Members<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/new\/whats_new.htm\">What&rsquo;s new<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/new\/meetings.htm\">Meetings<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/new\/officers.htm\">Officers<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/new\/QandA.htm \">Questions, Answers<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/new\/employment.htm\">Employment Opportunities<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/new\/related_links.htm\">Links<\/a>;<br \/>\nAddress: IAOHRA, 444 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 536, Washington, D.C. 20001, USA;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/new\/contact.htm\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/New\/aboutus.htm\">About \/Mission<\/a>; IAOHRA is a private non-profit\u00a0 corporation headquartered in Washington, D.C. The association was founded in 1949 in New York at the annual meeting of Human Rights Agencies from four states, which was referred to as the \u00ab\u00a0THE CONFERENCE OF FOUR STATE COMMISSIONS.\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>IAOHRA&rsquo;s membership presently consists of approximately one hundred sixty (160) human rights agencies in the United States and Canada.\u00a0 The goals of IAOHRA are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To foster human and intergroup relations.<\/li>\n<li>To enhance human rights practices under law.<\/li>\n<li>To promote civil and human rights around the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The association has provided leadership in the development and enforcement of needed statutes and ordinances-local, state, and federal &#8211; to safeguard the human and civil rights of all people.<\/p>\n<p>IAOHRA provides opportunities and forums for the exchange of ideas and information among human rights advocates.\u00a0 Organizations and individuals are invited to participate in IAOHRA sponsored seminars and training conferences with professionals from all disciplines.\u00a0 IAOHRA also provides advance training opportunities for its members and other concerned groups and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to promote equal opportunity and equal treatment.<\/li>\n<li>to provide assistance in the elimination of unlawful discrimination in employment, housing, education and public accommodations.<\/li>\n<li>to promote affirmative action in all areas.<\/li>\n<li>to coordinate member agencies&rsquo; concerns and interest before all branches of the federal government.<\/li>\n<li>to educate the public and private sector on human rights and civil rights issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Member Services: &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaohra.org\/New\/aboutus.htm\">full text About<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoting Civil and Human Rights Around The World &#8230; IAOHRA was founded in 1949 in New York. The International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies is a non-profit membership organization with its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The primary members are statutory human rights and human relations agencies with authority for enforcing a variety of human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=2011\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15961,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/15961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}