Gap Filling Tenses Exercise

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Human Rights Watch is a US-based international non-governmental organization that …………….. (conduct / conducts / has conducted) research on and advocacy for human rights. Its headquarters is in New York City.

Human Rights Watch ……………….. (founded / was founded / had founded) under the name Helsinki Watch in 1978. Its mission ……………. (is / was) to monitor the former Soviet Union’s compliance with the Helsinki Accords. As the organization ……………….. (grows / grew / has grown), it formed other ‘watch committees’ to cover other regions of the world. In 1988, all of these committees …………………… (united / were united / had united) under one umbrella and Human Rights Watch was born. Human Rights Watch ……………….. (oppose / opposes / opposed) the violation of basic human rights, including the death penalty and discrimination on the basis of race. It ………………. (advocate / advocates / advocated) fundamental human rights, such as freedom of religion and the press.

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Human Rights Watch is a US-based international non-governmental organization that conducts research on and advocacy for human rights. Its headquarters is in New York City.

Human Rights Watch was founded under the name Helsinki Watch in 1978. Its mission was to monitor the former Soviet Union ‘s compliance with the Helsinki Accords. As the organization grew, it formed other ‘watch committees’ to cover other regions of the world. In 1988, all of these committees were united under one umbrella and Human Rights Watch was born.  Human Rights Watch opposes the violation of basic human rights, including the death penalty and discrimination on the basis of race. It advocates fundamental human rights, such as freedom of religion and the press.