To fulfill its objectices BHRC carries out a number of activities, including:

• Conducting international fact-finding investigations, trial observations and feasibility studies reporting on human rights situations.
• Implementing capacity building projects through training in advocacy, human rights and humanitarian law.
• Providing legal resources that help strengthen institutions which have a direct impact on the promotion and protection of human rights and the rule of law.
• Monitoring human rights abuses and raising awareness of the plight of victims of human rights violations through the media and public meetings.
• Liaising with governmental and independent nongovernmental organisations working in the same field and co-operating with judges, lawyers, academics, civil society activists and others concerned with human rights.
• Assisting individuals and groups to challenge governments and those holding power to end abusive practices and to respect international human rights law.
• Participate in international litigation through our International Litigation Unit

In recent years, we has successfully delivered a variety of programmes or conducted missions to many countries including Syria, Cameroon, Colombia, Turkey, Jamaica, Bosnia Herzegovina, Iran , Armenia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Mexico , Belarus, Russia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana , Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Sudan. Project funding is achieved on an ad-hoc basis with many of our projects funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

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