The International Council on Human Rights Policy provides a forum for applied research, reflection and forward thinking on matters of international human rights policy.

We conduct independent applied research, taking an international, consultative and multidisciplinary approach. The International Council was conceived in 1994, by Philip Alston, Thomas Hammarberg and Margo Picken. They suggested that a space should be created to discuss human rights policy dilemmas and difficult implementation problems that arise. This proposal was subsequently discussed with a large number of human rights thinkers and organisations around the world, on the basis of two meetings, in Arden House (New York) in October 1993 and at the Research Centre for International Law (Cambridge) in July 1994.

Practical Research
Human Rights
Independence
International
Interdisciplinary