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The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project (http://www.humanrightsdata.org) annually rates the level of government respect for a variety of internationally recognized human rights. The CIRI data set currently contains quantitative indicators of 15 human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2010. Each year, new data are released on Human Rights Day, December 10. The CIRI data are used in over 150 countries by scholars, students, policymakers, and analysts representing over 400 organizations. CIRI's Co-Directors are political scientists Dr. David Cingranelli at Binghamton University, SUNY[1] and Dr. David L. Richards at The University of Connecticut.[2]

CIRI's activities can be followed via its blog at http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.com

Accessing the Data

The CIRI data are free for not-for-profit users. Once registered, CIRI users can create customized datsets, choosing only the indicators, countries, and years they need; or, they can download the entire data set. As of December 2007, CIRI began using its own numeric country identifier code, but continues to offer others for the purpose of data merging. The MyCIRI feature allows users to store their datasets on the CIRI server and easily update them when the master CIRI data are updated.

Financial Support

Financial support for the CIRI Data Project has come from the United States' National Science Foundation;[3] The World Bank; GTZ; Binghamton University, SUNY; the Center on Democratic Performance at Binghamton University, SUNY; The Human Rights Institute and College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at The University of Connecticut.

Existing CIRI Human Rights Indicators

Currently, the human rights for which government levels of respect are annually rated by CIRI include (alphabetically):

  • Assembly & Association
  • Disappearance
  • Domestic Movement
  • Electoral Self-Determination (formerly Political Participation & Free and Fair Elections)
  • Empowerment Rights Index (An additive index summarizing government respect for electoral self-determination, domestic movement, foreign movement, religion, speech, assembly & association, and workers' rights)
  • Extrajudicial Killing
  • Foreign Movement
  • Independence of the Judiciary
  • Physical Integrity Rights Index (An additive index summarizing government respect for disappearance, extrajudicial killing, political imprisonment, and torture)
  • Political Imprisonment
  • Religion
  • Speech
  • Torture
  • Women's Economic Rights
  • Women's Political Rights
  • Women's Social Rights
  • Workers' Rights

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.binghamton.edu/polsci/people/cingranelli.htm
  2. ^ David Richards, Associate Professor of Political Science and Human Rights, University of Connecticut
  3. ^ Grant Nos. SBR-9730130 (1997-1998), SES-0318273 (2004-2006), SES-0647969 (2007-2010), and SES-0647916 (2007-2010).
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