Documenting and exposing the capture of human rights
Political actors and well resourced organisations claim the vocabulary of rights, occupy multilateral spaces and receive public money earmarked for the protection of rights, in order to advance agendas that restrict those same rights. States advance “traditional values” and “mutually-beneficial cooperation” to undermine and attempt to rewrite international human rights law.
The evidence exists: it sits scattered across calls for proposals and strategies, accreditation lists, session records, funding registers and social media accounts. We assemble it, review it, publish about it, to protect international human rights law and right holders around the globe.
Rights Capture Monitor documents, verifies and publishes evidence across three streams.
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Narrative
How rights vocabulary is deployed in public communication, and how framings travel between actors and jurisdictions.
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Funding
State, multilateral and institutional budgets labelled for human rights or democracy, and the actors receiving them.
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Access
Consultative status, side events, statements in session and expert nominations across the Human Rights Council, the OSCE, treaty bodies and regional systems.