Our Team
Founders and Project Leadership
Human Rights TV (HR TV) is an independent media project launched by founders who share the belief that professional multilingual journalism can serve as a powerful tool to defend human rights, promote justice, counter disinformation, and amplify the voices of victims around the world.
During its founding stage, the project is led by a team with diverse experience in journalism, media, and human rights. The team is working toward building an international network of journalists, researchers, translators, content creators, and experts in media and human rights from different parts of the world, united by a commitment to truth, transparency, and professional responsibility.
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Abdelaziz Tarakji
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Abdelaziz Tarakji is an investigative journalist and researcher specializing in international law and human rights. He has more than twenty years of experience in investigative journalism, documenting human rights violations, analyzing geopolitical issues and organized crime, and managing multilingual media and human rights projects.
He has founded and managed several media and human rights initiatives and has held leadership positions in international organizations working in journalism and human rights. He leads Human Rights TV with the belief that free and responsible media is one of the most important tools for protecting human dignity and promoting justice and transparency internationally.
Co-Founder and Director of Media Documentation and Verification
Bilal Mahdi
Co-Founder and Director of Media Documentation and Verification
Bilal Mahdi is a Lebanese journalist and Editor-in-Chief of Beirut Gate. He has experience in journalism, digital media, editorial management, and news production, with a particular interest in covering political, social, and humanitarian issues, documenting events, and verifying information according to professional journalistic standards.
At Human Rights TV, he contributes to supervising media documentation and verification, reviewing journalistic materials, information, and sources, and supporting the development of accurate and professional content consistent with the organization’s commitment to truth and human rights.
Co-Founder and Director of Media Production
Fatima Brou
Co-Founder and Director of Media Production
Fatima Brou is a Syrian-Argentine director and media producer with diverse experience in radio, television, artistic production, theater direction, and filmmaking. She has worked with media organizations and production companies in Syria, Argentina, and Kuwait.
She has participated in the production and direction of media, theatrical, and cinematic works. She also served as a jury member at the International Migrant Film Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and received several honors for her creative work, including the Best Director in Latin America award in 2021.
At Human Rights TV, she supervises media production and the project’s visual identity. She works on developing audiovisual content and improving production quality in support of the organization’s mission to communicate the truth and defend human rights.
Our Vision for Building the Team
Human Rights TV believes that independent media institutions are built through professional expertise and diverse experience, not merely through numbers. For this reason, the project works to attract journalists, correspondents, researchers, translators, photographers, content creators, and digital media specialists from different countries to help build a professional team united by a commitment to truth and respect for human dignity.
As the project grows, additional members of the team and editorial board will be announced, forming part of an independent international media institution operating according to the highest standards of professionalism, independence, and transparency.
Every great media institution begins with an honest vision and grows through people who believe that the truth deserves to be told and that every human being deserves to have a voice.
At Human Rights TV, we are building a team united by truth and guided by the values of human rights.
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