International League for Human Rights
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The International League for Human Rights (ILHR) is a human rights organization, with headquarters in New York City.
Claiming to be "the oldest human rights organization in the U.S.", the ILHR defines its special mission as "defending human rights advocates who risk their lives to promote the ideals of a just and civil society in their homelands".
The ILHR had its origins in La Ligue Française pour la Défense de Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen, founded in France in the late nineteenth century. The group was reconstituted in New York in 1942 by European refugees and Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, and was known until 1976 as the International League for the Rights of Man. In 1947, the league was granted consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, giving it the right to testify before that body about human rights abuses.
