Research Catalog

Title

Human rights indicators : a guide to measurement and implementation.

Publication

New York ; Geneva : United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, 2012.

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Additional Authors

United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Description

x, 174 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

"The basic structure of the Guide is geared towards supporting a systematic and comprehensive translation of universal human rights standards into indicators that are contextually relevant. This approach favours using objective information which is easily available, or can be collected, for monitoring the national implementation of human rights. This requires the reader to: [1] Understand the conceptual approach so as to identify indicators, after developing a preliminary understanding of the human rights normative framework; [2] Explore the alternative data-generating methods to populate the selected indicators; and [3] Apply and interpret the numbers that go with an indicator so as to build an assessment on the state of human rights."--P. 8.

Subjects

• Human rights monitoring
• Human rights > Statistical methods

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Human rights and indicators: rationale and some concerns. What are human rights? -- United Nations human rights mechanisms -- Human rights indicators: notion and rationale -- Some concerns and misconceptions -- Indicators in the international legal framework -- Conceptualizing indicators for human rights. Issues to address in human rights measurement -- The conceptual framework -- Some considerations in conceptualizing the indicators -- Importance of context-specific indicators -- Methodological approaches to human rights indicators. Ethical, statistical and human rights considerations in indicator selection -- Sources and data-generating mechanisms -- Disaggregation of human rights indicators -- Illustrating the framework: indicators for some rights. Considerations in preparing tables of indicators -- Identifying the attributes -- Selecting the indicators -- Putting indicators into context and building country ownership -- Framework in practice: implementing and monitoring rights. Using indicators for human rights -- Interpreting statistical information from a human rights perspective -- Setting up human rights monitoring systems.

ISBN

• 9211541980
• 9789211541984

OCLC

• ocn857277503
• 857277503
• SCSB-5719223

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries