KHRP’s expert fact-finding and trial observation delegations to the regions continue to lend a sense of international solidarity to the most disadvantaged living there, while warning perpetrators that their contravention of international human rights norms will not go unchecked. Through independent investigations of allegations and concerns, fact-finding and trial observation missions play an essential part in monitoring human rights abuses.  The missions also help maintain vital links with victims and survivors of human rights abuse and their defenders, frequently also the subject of human rights abuse.

In 2007 we have:

·    Conducted three fact finding missions to Turkey and Iraq, focussing on women’s rights, development and media

·    Conducted two trial observations relating to the murder of the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and the 2005 Şemdinli bombing.

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