Measuring economic and social human rights: government effort & achievement

In this paper it is argued that it is necessary to develop a measure for the economic and social human rights practices of governments, instead of measuring human rights conditions or human rights policies. The authors thus outline a method to measure the level of government effort to respect economic & social rights, as well as a method to use this measure to come to an improved measure of government respect for economic & social rights that takes effort into account.

It is a rather technical paper which provides ready-to-use formulas in which already existing indicators such as ICESCR ratification and GPD per capita are used.

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CIRI Human Rights Data Project

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http://ciri.binghamton.edu/index.asp

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