The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) is a global collaborative project that tracks the human rights performance of countries. THIS POSITION IS NOW FILLED. We are looking for an academic collaborator to lead a workstream of human rights measurement specific to the Pacific region. Currently our main Pacific-specific product is the Pacific Module of our […]
What gets measured gets improved. If you want human rights to be prioritised and improved in your country, you probably know that robust, internationally-comparable human rights measurement data is necessary. We are asked almost daily to expand our human rights measurement work to new countries. If you would like us to produce data for your […]
Aroha mai, aroha atu: a key theme that emerged in conversations at the recent Pacific Region Co-Design Workshop was that if HRMI wanted to expand its human rights data collection work throughout the Pacific, there will need to be a reciprocal relationship, where HRMI are givers as well as receivers. Our annual human rights survey […]
Content Warning: this article contains discussion of extreme violence and human rights violations. The issues of crime and illegal immigration in the southern United States have been thrust to the forefront of American political debate since the election of Donald Trump as President. The President has argued that the best way to counter these problems […]
Kyrgyzstan’s relatively peaceful presidential election in 2017 gives hope that the nation can make lasting changes. However, the situation of ethnic minorities there has shown little improvement since the outbreak of inter-ethnic violence between the ethnic majority Kyrgyz and the ethnic minority Uzbek population. UN reports estimate nearly 400,000 people were displaced as a result […]
HRMI’s goal is to improve people’s lives, worldwide, by producing robust, comparable data on the human rights performance of countries. The data is published each year, free for anyone to use, on our data site. Can you help us do that, by becoming a HRMI Ambassador? Who can be a HRMI Ambassador? We are looking for […]
When the UN released its human rights report for Venezuela last month, the conclusion was damning. The Venezuelan government, headed by Nicolás Maduro, has dug the country into a human rights hole. In an attempt to hide their transgressions, the Venezuelan government has ‘impose[d] a communicational hegemony by enforcing its own version of events and […]
We’re delighted to announce that we’re holding our fourth international HRMI co-design workshop, this time focused on tracking human rights in the Pacific region. The workshop will be held in central Auckland, New Zealand, on 19-21 August, 2019. We have set ourselves a grand new challenge, in two parts: to expand our civil and political […]
This article has been updated to reflect the 2019 HRMI data. Since the election of Rodrigo Duterte in June 2016, a violent ‘war on drugs’ has claimed upwards of 5,000 lives in the Philippines. Executions by police and militia groups that target drug dealers and users not only exacerbate the drug problem but constitute a […]
Es una triste realidad que los periodistas y defensores de los derechos humanos corran peligro de ser perseguidos por los gobiernos. Dado que estas personas valientes y dedicadas son a menudo los mismos expertos en derechos humanos en el país que les pedimos que participen en nuestra recopilación de datos, es realmente importante para nosotros […]
