To promote the basic principles of the legal profession.

To participate in the development of legal knowledge at an international level.

To contribute to the establishment of an international legal order based on the principles of human rights and justice among nations, through the law and for the cause of peace.

To co-operate as a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), with the activities of national and international organisations.

To establish relations and exchanges between bars, bar associations and law societies at an international level.

To defend the profession.