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HUMAN RIGHTS MEASUREMENT INITIATIVE

Our Rights Tracker provides free, country-level human rights data.

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13

rights

203

countries

39

people groups

“Quality human rights data will assist the investor community in making better investment decisions and asses how they contribute to sustainability.”
Hiro Mizuno
UN Special Envoy on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments
“The fight for universal respect for the rights of people everywhere requires good data.”
Scott Edwards
Senior Crisis Advisor, Amnesty International
“No one understands the human rights situation in a country better than the local and international experts and activists working to minimize rights violations there.”
Brian Root
Quantitative Analyst, Human Rights Watch

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HRMI is working to produce a comprehensive, robust, easy-to-access database tracking the human rights performance of countries.

What gets measured, gets improved. Please use our data in your own work to improve people’s lives. 

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What stories can you tell with HRMI data?

India can make huge improvements in economic and social rights

Covid-19 and human rights in Angola

United Kingdom: human rights during the pandemic

Quality of life in Canada: some room for improvement

Improving enjoyment of the right to housing in Chile

Human rights plummet under Brazil’s Bolsonaro

Reforms needed to reduce relative poverty in South Korea

Vietnam’s Journalists and union members suffer human rights violations

Human rights abuses of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia

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