Human Rights Investigations

How to Weigh a Mountain of Evidence: Guest Blog by Professor Paul McKeigue (Part 1)

The first of two articles explaining how assess different theories and applying these principles to the Ghouta and Khan Sheikhoun cases. These articles were written by Professor Paul McKeigue and have been reproduced with permission of Professor Tim Hayward who first published them on his blog. In this first of a two part special guest […]

Human Rights Investigations fundraiser on Indiegogo

Human Rights Investigations has just launched its first ever fundraising campaign – using the crowd-funding site Indiegogo. In recent times we’ve had the misfortune to see mainstream human rights organisations using their resources in support of military interventions. If you find that annoying, and would like to send a message that human rights should be […]

Key new evidence reveals fundamental error in Human Rights Watch, media & government statements over Syria chemical attacks.

Key evidence about the range of the rockets allegedly used by the Syrian regime in the chemical attacks on 21st August in East Ghouta, which was first published by Human Rights Investigations (HRI) yesterday, indicates that widespread statements made by Human Rights Watch (HRW), government officials and the mass media about the attacks are erroneous. […]

Who attacked Ghouta with chemical weapons? – the opposition forces

In the aftermath of the chemical attack in Syria on August 21st, each side naturally blamed the other, with western intelligence agencies providing evidence supporting the opposition, and Russian intelligence supporting the regime. Both sides issued biased reports with cherry-picked evidence, only adding to the confusion. A sadly rushed and deficient interim UN Report by […]