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HRW is funded by donations. More than 75% of its financial support comes from North America.

If you are alleging that Qatar is motivating the ideology of a human rights organization, I don't think that's true at all.

> You are lying

Please make your substantive points without attacking others. If someone else is wrong or has a bad argument, it's enough to post correct information or a better argument.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

I suppose I should have included a source for the 75% number.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090722190606/http://www.hrw.or...

Apologies for missing the mark there.

Where did you read they are funded by Qatar? Some quick searching indicates that's false.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/financials

[2] https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/human-rights-watch...

HRW was caught in the past soliciting donations from Saudis in return for restricting their Middle East reporting [1]

Project Raven, a UAE offensive cyber operation has leaked a document by the Qatar government concerning financing of HRW [2][3]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/02/human-rights-watch-took-...

[2] https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/1700763578-human-...

[3] https://www.memri.org/reports/raven-project-leaks-alleged-qa...

Thanks for sharing. I don't personally see how those disqualify the information in the article though.

I see very little evidence by the HRW research, just an appeal to the authority of a human rights organization ability for impartial investigation.

However, I am calling that impartially into question due to evidence pointing otherwise

For anyone viewing this thread now, take into consideration what wikipedia says about MEMRI:

"Critics describe MEMRI as a strongly pro-Israel advocacy group that, in spite of describing itself as being "independent" and "non-partisan" in nature,[5][6][7] aims to portray the Arab world and the Muslim world in a negative light by producing and disseminating incomplete or inaccurate translations of the original versions of the media reports that it re-publishes."

"co-founded by Israeli ex-intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser in 1997"

I think there is a deep irony in using MEMRI publications as evidence that a human rights watch org has ideological bias.

What does wikipedia say about the intercept? Is it also a pro-israeli advocacy group?

The intercept article you linked says HRW gave the money back, so that's kind of a nothingburger, isn't it?

it said that organization reported a company for engaging in slave labor, it then took donations from that company while agreeing not to cover LGBT rights in the middle east in return, but when it was caught it agreed to give the donation back

I would hardly describe it as a nothingburger for human rights organization ethics, but that's only me

Fascinating conversation you're having at me here.

Good stuff.

Anything else you'd like to add while you're at it?