Human Rights Watch is one of the most reputable None Government Organizations which dedicated to protect human rights. It is independent and does not accept donations from any governments. The organization was founded in 1981, its mission is to defend the rights of people worldwide. It opposes the violations of what it considers basic human rights, including capital punishment and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Human Rights Watch advocates freedoms in connection with fundamental human rights, such as freedom of religion and the press.
It conducts the investigations, interviews the victims, witnesses, and sometime even the perpetrators in order to document the facts, gather the evidences to exposes the perpetrators that …show more content…
On May 2nd, 2013, Syria government forces and pro-government militaries executed at least 167 civilians in the village of al-Bayda. The Syria government denied the massacre and said they killed the “terrorists”. Human Rights Watch conducted a two-and-half months’ investigation, through the on-the-ground fact-finding interviews with the survivor-witnesses and some soldiers of Syria army special force and Syria national defense force, and documented the detailed evidences of what had happened to the villager of the …show more content…
On August 21st, 2013, a large-scale chemical attack against civilians in opposition-controlled suburbs of Damascus reported. The Syria government immediate denied the responsibilities and blamed oppositions. Through working with the local activists, Human Rights Watch conducted the interviews through Skype with the eye-witnesses, the first responders, nurses, doctors and patients, and saw the symptoms of the foaming of the mouth, the purple lips, which indicating the signs of been exposed to a nerve agent. With the collaborative works of the specialized net-works, the military and bomb identification experts, in addition with the bomb transforming documents and actual bombing video footages, they discovered that the chemical bomb was fired by the Syria government soldiers. This investigation and report led to the official UN investigation of whether the chemical weapons were used during the Ghouta attacks.
Besides these two investigations, the Human Rights Watch have been conducting many other investigations worldwide as well, such as the Child-bride investigation in Nepal, Tibetan people’ rights in China, the investigation of rape and murder Indigenous woman and girls in