The systematic documentation of human rights violations is a useful strategy to protect human rights and extend freedom. It is helpful to illuminate past violations and punish the responsible ones for their crimes. With regards to the work of human right organisations, it helps us both to see how systematic is a violation and in which ways we could struggle against it, and also let us show the public that the most common phrase of governments which is “isolated incident” is a big lie.

Specific to HRFT’s reports, since our foundation in 1990, our reports have been used as an important resource for alternative or shadow reports both by national and international human rights organisations and preventive mechanisms.