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Care Not Cages wrote this open letter to the Aotearoa New Zealand Government to transform the justice system to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Parents of Vision Impaired NZ published a press release in response to HRMI’s data on people with disabilities.

Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand published a press release in response to HRMI’s 2023 data.

The Human Rights Law Centre called on the Australian government to strengthen human rights in law.

Corporate Accountability & Public Participation Africa issued a statement urging President Bola Ahmed to protect democratic rights in Nigeria.

Broken Chalk submitted this report on the right to education for Bangladesh‘s Universal Periodic Review in 2022.

Broken Chalk wrote about intersectional discrimination in Perú.

Dorcas Adenike Oketoyin drew on HRMI data in this article on the right to health in Nigeria and the pressing need for improvement.

Broken Chalk submitted this report on the right to education for Romania‘s Universal Periodic Review in 2022 (link no longer active).

The Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN submitted this report for India’s Universal Periodic Review in 2022.

Broken Chalk submitted this report on the right to education for Serbia‘s Universal Periodic Review in 2022 (link no longer active).

The 88 Project wrote about Vietnam’s HRMI scores in its weekly newsletter.

Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand published a press release on New Zealand’s Torture and Ill-Treatment scores, highlighting the problems with the criminal justice system.

Cultural Survival submitted this report on the state of Indigenous Human Rights in Uganda for the UN Universal Periodic Review, citing the country’s right to health and right to food HRMI scores.

The Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR) included HRMI’s narrative summary document as an annex to their Joint Stakeholders’ Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review.

Asia Democracy Chronicles featured HRMI’s arbitrary arrest score for Hong Kong as part of a feature on Hong Kong (link no longer available).

Together for Justice wrote a report on human rights in Saudi Arabia, focusing on HRMI’s new scores.

The Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce used HRMI data in a media release calling for asylum seekers in offshore detention to be welcomed into Australia.

The President of Pride Cook Islands commented on HRMI’s 2021 scores publicly and raised awareness of current needs for reform.

New Zealand’s Human Rights Commissioners made a public statement about HRMI’s scores for New Zealand, and the need for significant improvements.

Cultural Survival used HRMI data on gender difference in the right education in their UNHRC UPR submission: Observations on the State of Indigenous Human Rights in the Solomon Islands.

APC used HRMI data for Mozambique in its report, ‘The struggle for the realisation of the right to freedom of expression in Southern Africa.’

Cultural Survival used HRMI data on the right to health and the right to freedom from torture and ill-treatment in their UNHRC UPR submission in March 2021 for Papua New Guinea: Observations on the State of Indigenous Human Rights in Papua New Guinea.

Former Prime Minister of Fiji, Mahendra Chaudhry, surveyed Fiji’s human rights record, especially with respect to police violence, in an op-ed in the Fiji Times. He included HRMI scores as evidence of problems: All Is Not Well.

The World Evangelical Alliance and Ethos included HRMI data on rights violations against Indigenous people in their Stakeholder’s Report for the Universal Periodic Review for Australia.

PVINZ called on the New Zealand government to act on disability support issues, using our 2020 data.

Peter Whiting features HRMI data in this thoughtful editorial on Australia’s mixed record on human rights, for Social Policy Connections.

“It is my hope that the quantitative measure of human rights performance, accorded by tracking measures like the HRMI, will act as a beacon to governments around the world, and will see them commit to measures designed to improve their standing in the human rights league table.”

Human Rights Pulse cited HRMI’s US data on extrajudicial execution and torture, in Hypocrisy and human rights abuses in the land of the free.

This post about human rights violations by police in Australia cites HRMI’s Australia scores, particularly in regards to Indigenous Australians, along with information from Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, the Royal Commission into deaths in custody, and the Australian Law Reform Commission.

ISHR, the Geneva-based NGO focusing on human rights defenders, used HRMI data in a report on intimidation and human rights abuses.

Amnesty International’s Southern Africa Regional Office approached HRMI for help using HRMI ESR data in a report on economic and social rights in Angola. (The draft report was completed but publication has been delayed due to covid-19.)

Joshua Alade of the civil society organisation Nigerian Youth SDGs gave us this feedback on his use of our data:

“The meeting with the Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed went well. I was able to use the statistics from Human Rights Measurement Initiative to state the urgent need for investment in education and training for youth in Nigeria as this is the surest path to sustainable development. We will be hosting dialogues across Nigeria to get the aspirations of young Nigerians as regards decent work and the data from HRMI is really valuable.

We will be meeting with government representatives across ten Nigerian states over the next month and this data will be the centre of our conversation.”

Free Speech and Free Press Around the World used HRMI data in its analysis of the situation in Mozambique.

The Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares de Comunicação referenced HRMI’s Mozambique scores on the right to opinion and expression in this article: O Direito à Liberdade de Expressão no Contexto Moçambicano (The Right to Freedom of Expression in the Mozambican context). En portugais, avec résumé en anglais.

Josef Benedict from CIVICUS used HRMI’s data in a DevPolicy article about Fiji’s human rights record.

The Australian Human Rights Institute, at the University of New South Wales, published an article on HRMI data for Australia.

The Human Rights At Home blog discussed HRMI’s scores for the United States.

Human Rights Connected added a profile of HRMI to its resource website as a tool for activists.

AMES Australia, a refugee and migrant organisation, reported on HRMI’s data release, with particular mention of Australia’s scores.

Lauren Jurgemeyer cited HRMI’s Mozambique data in this report on freedom of speech and press.

Universal Rights Group (URG) in Geneva approached HRMI to collaborate on a range of projects. Together the two organisations co-published a report using HRMI data to shed light on the global human rights situation, and an article on how HRMI data can be useful for countries striving towards the SDGs. The collaboration is ongoing with URG planning new innovations to encourage the use of HRMI data for holding countries to account within the UN system.