FEED: Human rights data

The idea of evaluating sites with human rights data? Priceless. And a good research resource for future topics.

It is extremely important to have good data on individual human rights, and in this page I’ll try to list the available data sources for each human right. In order to do that, I established a stylized set of human rights, derived from the major international human rights instrument which is known as the International Bill of Human Rights (IBHR), comprised of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (1966)... I separate these rights into the 3 traditional groups of rights - freedom rights, political rights and social and economic rights. For each human right, I list and give examples of some of the authoritative measurements, if any. More...