🔜 TOMORROW 18:00–19:30 GMT 🏡 #ECPRHouseSeries roundtable
📐 Measuring #HumanRights : Challenges and Developments
🔲 Collaboration with The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR
🗣️ K. Chad Clay, Dr. Stephen Bagwell, Elizabeth Kaletski, Annie Watson
🪑 Eduardo Burkle
👉🏽 ecpr.eu/Events/243

New data released this Thursday by the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, a collaboration between researchers and human rights defenders, shows that Brazil has lost points in several economic and social rights indicators in the last five years.

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📐 NEW DATA PREVIEW | HRMI's 2023 human rights data will be released on 22 June.

Here's a sneak peek of #Brazil 's scores:

Brazil's freedom of opinion + expression score dropped from 4.4 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2022.

Join us to see the new data ⤵️
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This is EXCELLENT!

'You're a human rights person: you just don't know it yet.'

Hear K. Chad Clay's brilliant TEDxUGA Talk on why most of us care about human rights, whether we realise it or not - and what to do next.

Share widely - it's *really* good!

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⏰LAST CHANCE | This is the very last week our annual human rights survey will be open!

If you can help us monitor what's going on in your country, we would greatly value your participation. Please click the secure link in your inbox as soon as you can.

Thank you!🙏🏽

📢JHR has published two special issues on human rights and COVID-19. Now, they've been re-printed in a @RoutledgeBooks volume edited by Shareen Hertel & Catherine Buerger (@UConn): Rights at Stake and the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Use code 'SMA33' for 20% off at routledge.com/Rights-at-Stak…

One of the questions I get the most is 'What value does HRMI (Human Rights Measurement Initiative) add over other data sources?'

Here's my answer: theloop.ecpr.eu/surveying-the-…

📐 #MeasuringHumanRights
Anne-Marie Brook & Kobe Amos survey the landscape of #HumanRights data, explaining what sets #HumanRights MeasurementInitiative data apart. Accurate measurement is important, because 'what gets measured, gets improved' Human Rights Measurement Initiative
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On why the runoff elections are crucial for the future of democracy in Brazil. Thanks, The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR!

Read my article here ⬇️

Great examples here from #Vietnam and #DRCongo / #RDCongo :

Great new article on the #MeasuringHumanRights series at The Loop!

🇨🇩DR CONGO | '33% of respondents considered children [in #DRC ] at risk of not having adequate food. This is reflected in high deficits in nutrition – across the country, 4 out of 10 children are stunted.'

More on child rights around the world in this new article:

'Good human rights data does more than simply evaluate how well a country is performing – it also identifies which policies and institutions are truly effective in promoting human rights.'

New article here:

GLOBIS Operations Assistant Eduardo Burkle is working with Human Rights Measurement Initiative to lead up a new series on Measuring Human Rights The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR.

📐 #MeasuringHumanRights No.2 Pablo Santos-Pineda of Human Rights Measurement Initiative uses HRMI scores to evaluate El Salvador’s 🇸🇻 poor performance in fulfilling the right to education. Many children would benefit from strategic changes in its policies bit.ly/3ADwvN3

We're proud to be kicking off a brand-new series at The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR with this article by HRMI's Eduardo Burkle.

It's a great introduction to how and why we measure human rights - and contains an invitation for you to contribute to the series too.

Take a look!

📐 Do you research #HumanRights ? Contribute to our NEW series on challenges of data-gathering methodologies. You might:
🟡Use case studies to show how data reveals human rights concerns
🟡Give an overview of a political development in a specific country
✍️ bit.ly/3lJAAEW

GLOBIS researcher and human rights lab director Meridith LaVelle, former School of Public & International Affairs | UGA PhD student and current University of Missouri–St. Louis professor Dr. Stephen Bagwell, and GLOBIS director K. Chad Clay present data on human rights in Hong Kong in the The Washington Post @monkeycageblog. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…