Why Have Human Rights NGOs Like HRW So Consistently Paralleled U.S. Positions and Policies?
By Dylan Pollard
Human rights are for humanity, not for a selected group of people or countries or Human Rights NGOs such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), The Rights Practice and The Advocates for Human Rights.
Human rights must be approached based on the context and the stage of nation building. Above all, human rights must not be politized the way some human rights NGOs have done. Many of these NGOs, unfortunately, are founded based on political ideology for the purpose of propaganda and brainwash. U.S. government has long used human rights issues to meddle other countries’ affairs and advance its own foreign policy objectives. It has devised tools that could serve as a facade for its hegemonic political agenda, and HRW is just one of them.