Our Mission
We connect individuals and organizations with our mission to advance human rights.
International Human Rights Consortium (IHRC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded over 30 years ago by visionary founder Wilda Spalding.
‘Sphere within a Sphere’ Arnaldo Pomodoro (1926 – ) United Nations Art Collection
Positive People for Positive Change.
Positive People for Positive Change.
IHRC NGO CSW67 Forum parallel event - Mar 2023
IHRC NGO CSW68 Forum parallel event flyer - Mar 2024
First Medicines passion project, whose mission is "to reduce suffering and enhance health worldwide through traditional and integrative therapies"
First Medicines Supporting Climate Refugees
First Medicines treating an infant survivor of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
First Medicines providing stress relief treatment in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
Valhalla Macadamia Farm passion project, Guatemala. Native Plant Exchange
Valhalla Macadamia Farm in Guatemala distributing macadamia tree seedlings
Winston-Salem Permaculture Collective's Southside Food Forest former / incubated passion project
IHRC Booth at Piedmont Environmental Alliance Earth Day Fair - 2025
IHRC Delegation at UN Summit for the Future - Sept 2024
United Nations Vote to Adopt the Pact for the Future - Sept 2024
Human Rights Education Booth at Florida State College Jacksonville Human Rights event - Jan 2026
Eleanor Roosevelt with the newly published UDHR
IHRC at Doha World Summit for Social Development Round Table - Nov 2025
Our Vision:
Born of the essence of our founder Wilda Spalding’s philosophy, our vision is of a world in which the uniqueness & intrinsic excellence of every individual is honored and celebrated for its capacity to add to the overall quality of human experience & human responsibility for all life on our precious planet.
Recent News
August 2026 - MEET ME THERE, The Interfaith Musical has first staged presentation
After weeks of intensive rehearsals, MEET ME THERE was staged for a public audience of over 300 people for the first time, over two nights in Santa Monica, CA. The response was overwhelming, and the team is pushing forward to prepare for the off-off Broadway opening planned for 2027. You can read much more about it on our MEET ME THERE project page, or just go ahead…
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April 2026 - 2026 Digital World Conference: AI for Social Development, Geneva
As part of the 2026 DWC, IHRC participated on a panel entitled AI for Just Transition. We talked specifically about the Human Rights aspect of AI, the near term changes AI will bring specifically in areas of employment, and the migration via Just Transition to the world view of "Caring and Sacredness” that has been described as a hallmark of that process. Coming out of that conference, IHRC has been invited to participate with 20+ other organizations in a Research Coalition on AI for Equity and Inclusion. We are defining our contribution now for a working group process that will take us into 2027. We welcome your input - email us here.
January 2026 - Florida State College at Jacksonville Human Rights Event
We were invited to do our first on campus event in Jacksonville, FL as part of a student government organized Human Rights awareness event. We talked about the UDHR, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the projects IHRC has underway that advance both. We welcome additional opportunities to travel and share our work in other student settings.
November 2025 - World Summit for Social Development 2
IHRC took a small team to Doha, Qatar to begin building global partnerships to advance our Kenya Mobile Internet Access Initiative with Global Affairs Development Union. We submitted a Round Table statement which was selected for presentation. You can find it here.
July 2025 - Kenya Mobile Internet Access Initiative Launched
Our newest Passion Project partner, Global Affairs Development Union (GADU), has presented IHRC with the opportunity to help them address the global ‘digital divide’ in Kenya’s coastal fishing communities by providing mobile internet access to small-scale fisherfolk near Kisumu and Mombasa. GADU is based in Nairobi, Kenya; IHRC first connected with them during our trip to the Summit of the Future last September.
We’re deep into our fundraising efforts right now, targeting a launch later this fall of Phase 1: Research and Development. Find out more by clicking on the link in the menu above.
March 2025 - NGO CSW69 / Beijing+30 Forum
This past March IHRC participated in the NGO Forum virtually, highlighting our newest passion project, FemFEAST, a program that leverages STEM and general business education to increase women’s empowerment globally.