Measuring Human Rights
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Measuring Human Rights
This lens provides a one-stop shop for information on Measuring Human Rights. There is an increasing demand for more and better measures of the different categories and dimensions of human rights. The content and links available here comprise the main background material for a new book that I wrote with Edzia Carvalho for Routledge Press.
The book is in the process of being published and will be released later in 2009!
We have worked hard on these materials and we hope that this lens provides a useful resource to the international community of human rights scholars and pratictioners.
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Human rights measurement books
These are the top books that deal with measuring human rights
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Events-based Measures of Human Rights
Violations approaches to measuring human rights with event-count data
These links are for those organisations individuals working events-based data systems for human rights measurement
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Pioneers of event-based measures of human rights and the multiple systems estimation technqiue for estimating human rights violations event counts from multiple sources of data. Making the Case is a free on-line book.
- Bentech Organisation
- Guidance on developing information systems for collecting data on large-scale human rights violations, and the implementation of human rights monitoring systems.
- Ronald Francisco
- Good examples of event-based data on political violence and repression using multiple newswire sources.
- Gary King
- Events-based data on conflict events coded from multiple newswire sources.
- Virtual Research Associates
- Events-based data on conflict data-based on multiple newswire sources.
Standards-based measures of human rights
Expert judgement scales on human rights
This is a list of groups and organisations that produce exppert judgement ordinal scale measures for human rights. The data tend to cover large cross-national selections of countries across long periods of time.
- Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI)
- Data resource with 17 measures of human rights across over 160 countries since 1980.
- Freedom House
- Standards based measures of freedom that include political rights and civil liberties.
- Political Terror Scale
- Standards-based measure of 'physical integrity rights' based on Amnesty International and US State Department Reports.
Survey-based measures of human rights
Mass public surveys on human rights
This is a list of groups and organisations that produce survey-based data on perceptions and experiences of human rights violations.
- Afrobarometer
- Survey-based data on perceptions of institutions and practices in Africa
- Asia Barometer
- Survey-based data on perceptions of institutions and practices in Asia
- Eurobarometer
- Survey-based data on perceptions of institutions and practices in Europe.
- Latino Barometer
- Survey-based data on perceptions of institutions and practices in Latin America.
- Phyisicians for Human Rights
- Human rights organization that has pioneered survey analysis of human rights problems in conflict-ridden societies.
- World Public Opinion
- Collection of public opinion surveys from around the world organized by region and topic, including development, governance, and human rights.
- World Values Survey
- Survey-based data on perceptions of institutions and practices.
Socio-economic and administrative statistics
Socio-economic and administrative statistics for proxy measures of human rights
This is a list of groups and organisations who produce socio-economic and administrative statistics useful proxy measures of certain human rights.
- DFID List of Sites
- UK Department for International Development (DFID) sites for indicators
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- Good source for data on food security.
- Penn World Tables
- Database of time-series socio-economic and development indicators for the whole world.
- UNDP Human Develpment Index
- Combined measure of income, longevity, and literacy for all countries in the world.
- United Nations Statistics Division
- Variety of indicators for social and economic development.
- World Bank World Development Indicators
- Over 500 socio-economic and development time-series indicators for the whole world.
- World Bank Governance Indicators
- A variety of governance and governance related indicators. Now available over more time points and with more information on the components of the six main dimensions of governance.
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I am Dr Todd Landman. I am an academic based in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. I teach, do research, and proviode international... more »
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