International Legal Clinic
Prepare a human rights communication
Find out which international bodies can hear your case. Then draft your rights communication step by step, and an IMR lawyer reviews it with you before anything is filed.
- Free of charge
- About 15 minutes
- Reviewed by an IMR lawyer
- Nothing is filed without your agreement
Translations have not yet been reviewed. If anything is unclear, the English version applies.
- 1CheckAnswer a few questions
- 2ChooseSee where the case can go
- 3Draft and sendWrite it, then send to IMR
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Where this case could go
New to these bodies? The ISHR guide to UN complaints explains how they work. Back home and owed wages? See Getting your rights after you return.
Guides and model forms
- Bayefsky.com: how to complain to the UN human rights treaty system, with each committee's admissibility rules and its past decisions by country and topic.
- Human Rights Committee: individual communications, including the model complaint form this draft follows.
- OHCHR: complaints about human rights violations, covering every treaty committee.
- OHCHR jurisprudence database of committee decisions.
This checker is a guide, not legal advice. Rules change and every mechanism has further conditions, so the Clinic checks the details before anything is filed. Treaty acceptance for Indonesia was last checked in October 2026; for other countries, see the OHCHR ratification dashboard.