THE Swedish Observatory works FOR A BEtTER world.

Through our detailed research and determined advocacy and campaigning, we help fight abuses of human rights. We partner with organizations large and small across the world to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims. Our mission is to ensure the dissemination of a human rights culture among all levels of different states and societies in the countries and regions we cover.

The Swedish Observatory for human rights information will give any organization or a person a megaphone to magnify their voices around the world, and will give voice to the oppressed wherever they are. Let us join together to mobilize public pressure and show international solidarity, until everyone can live with dignity, until every person's voice is heard, and until we end torture and discrimination.

how we work:

We maintain an extensive network of sources that enables us to closely monitor different human rights violations on the ground and bring them to the attention of the international community. Our Sweden-based team analyses the information and disseminates it widely by sharing breaking news, writing urgent statements, and researching and publishing larger reports, including our Annual Report.

We raise individual cases as well as patterns and new trends of human rights violations with various international, regional and national bodies, including the UN human rights system, EU institutions and the Swedish government and parliament, as well as individual stakeholders such as diplomats. SOHRI’s advocacy and lobbying activities are aimed at encouraging key decision makers to develop policy positions that will increase pressure on authorities in different countries and regions to improve the human rights situation on the ground.

SOHRI conducts global campaigns via social media activity as well as online materials to raise awareness about different human rights violations. SOHRI will also regularly participate in UN Human Rights Council sessions as well as holding public events, including an annual conference that brings together a wide range of experts to discuss the various human rights concerns in different countries and regions. SOHRI will maintain an active presence in the media, giving interviews and quotes to the press, so that its work is regularly quoted in major international outlets.