Erstellt am: 10. 12. 2015 - 14:46 Uhr

It's International Human Rights Day.

Reality Check speaks with Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch about the work of special investigators.

Anna, Ole, Fred and Peter are members of the Emergencies Team or E-Team from Human Rights Watch. They are trained to fly to crisis regions all over the globe as soon as allegations of human rights abuses come to light. Their job is essentially to gather important evidence, to document allegations of abuses and to investigate how such crimes were carried out.

Their work was higlighted in an independent documentary, premiered last year at the Sundance Festival and the film has been doing the rounds at film festivals ever since to great acclaim.

As today is International Human Rights Day, it seemed appropriate to speak with a member of the E-Team featured in this documentary. Fred Abrahams talks to us about his work and the lives of specialists who get a call when a crisis is unfolding somewhere in the world. It means he and his colleagues have to suddenly leave the comforts of westen life in, say, Berlin, New York or Paris, for weeks on end and jump on a plane and head off on a difficult and dangerous journey with an often unknown outcome.

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