The aims of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with consultative status to ECOSOC and UNESCO are:

■To facilitate contact and exchanges of views among lawyers and lawyers-associations of all countries to foster understanding and goodwill among them.
■To work together to achieve the aims set out in the Charter of the United Nations.
■To ensure common action by lawyers:
■In the realm of law, the study and practice of the principles of democracy to encourage the maintenance of peace and cooperation among nations.
■To restore, defend and develop democratic rights and liberties in legislation and in practice.
■To promote the independence of all peoples and to oppose any restriction on this independence whether in law or in practice.
■To defend and promote human and peoples'' rights.
■To promote the preservation of ecology and healthy environments.
■To struggle for strict adherence to the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary and legal profession.
■To defend peoples'' rights to development and for conditions of economic equality and the enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress and natural resources.