INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE TRUST

Registered charity 1133427 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance education in the law throughout the world for the benefit of the public; to promote research into commonly encountered legal problems and to disseminate the useful results of such research for the benefit of the public; to promote human rights throughout the world.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS AND REGIONAL CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW; AND(B) THE PROMOTION OF THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW (AS ARTICULATED IN THE RESOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION COUNCIL OF SEPTEMBER 2005 AND IN THE STANDARDS CONTAINED IN THE UNITED NATIONS AND REGIONAL INSTRUMENTS SUCH AS THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, THE UN BASIC PRINCIPLES ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY 1985 AND THE UN BASIC PRINCIPLES ON THE ROLE OF LAWYERS 1990.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, WORLDWIDE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a deficit of £140,691, reducing net assets to £930,157. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of keeping one year’s donation in reserve, noting that the charity is dependent on a single principal donor, the International Bar Association.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (57% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Howe
• GRAEME KIRK
• JOHN ROBERT HEAPS
• Julia Onslow-Cole
• Luz Nagle
• Maleeka Ali Bokhari
• YASMIN WALJEE · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Azerbaijan · Brazil · Burma · City Of London · Colombia · East Timor · El Salvador · Kazakhstan · Kenya · Mexico · South Africa · Switzerland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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• HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £40k
• INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & BUSINESS LIMITED income £2.5m
• HARROW LAW CENTRE income £1.0m
• INTERMEDIARIES FOR JUSTICE income £27k
• THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW income £2.7m
• THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RIGHTS income £343k

Side by side with its peers

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