88 Human Rights Indicators
Outcome
Process
Structural
Table 1
Administrative deprivation
of liberty
Effective review by court
Security from crime and abuse
by law enforcement officials
• Time frame and coverage of policy and administrative
framework on security, handling of criminality and abuse by
law enforcement officials
• Number/proportion of arrests
or entries into detention under
national administrative
provisions (e.g., security,
immigration control, mental
impairment and other medical
grounds, educational purposes,
drug addiction, financial
obligations) in the reporting
period
• Number/proportion of releases
from administrative detention in
the reporting period
• Proportion of arrests and detentions
declared unlawful by national courts
• Proportion of victims released and
compensated after arrest or detention
declared unlawful by judicial authority
• Proportion of cases where the time for
arrested or detained persons before being
informed of the reasons for the arrest,
before receiving notice of the charge
(in a legal sense) or before being
informed of the reasons for the
administrative detention exceeded the
legally stipulated time limit
• Number of habeas corpus and similar
petitions filed in court in the reporting
period
• Proportion of bail applications accepted
by the court in the reporting period
• Proportion of arrested or detained persons
given access to a lawyer or legal aid
• Proportion of cases subject to review by
a higher court or appellate body
• Reported cases where pretrial and trial
detentions exceeded the legally stipulated
time limit in the reporting period
• Proportion of population feeling unsafe (e.g., walking alone
after dark or being alone at home at night)
• Incidence and prevalence of physical and non-physical abuse
or crime, including by law enforcement officials on duty, per
100,000 population, in the reporting period
• Proportion of law enforcement officials formally investigated for
physical and non-physical abuse or crime, including arbitrary
arrest and detention (based on criminal or administrative
grounds)
• Proportion of formal investigations of law enforcement officials
resulting in disciplinary action or prosecution in the reporting
period
• Proportion of uniformed police and other law enforcement
officials with visible Government-provided identification
(e.g., name or number)
• Number of persons arrested, adjudicated, convicted or serving
sentence for violent crime (including homicide, rape, assault) per
100,000 population in the reporting period
• Proportion of law enforcement officials killed in line of duty in
the reporting period
• Firearm owners per 100,000 population / Number of firearm
licences withdrawn in the reporting period
• Proportion of violent crimes with the use of firearms
• Proportion of violent crimes reported to the police (victimization
survey) in the reporting period
All indicators should be disaggregated by prohibited grounds of discrimination, as applicable and reflected in metadata sheets
• Number of detentions, per 100,000 population, on the basis of
a court order or action by executive authorities at the end of the
reporting period
• Reported cases of arbitrary, including post-trial, detention
(e.g., as reported to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention)
in the reporting period
• Number/proportion of arrests
or entries into detention
(pretrial and pending trial)
on the basis of a court order
or action taken directly by
executive authorities in the
reporting period
• Number/proportion of
defendants released from
pretrial and trial detention in
exchange for bail or owing
to non-filing of charges in the
reporting period
• Proportion of received complaints on the right to liberty and security of person investigated and adjudicated by the national human rights institution, human rights ombudsperson or other
mechanisms and the proportion of these responded to effectively by the Government
• Proportion of communications from the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention responded to effectively by the Government
• Proportion of law enforcement officials (including police, military and State security force) trained in rules of conduct concerning proportional use of force, arrest, detention, interrogation
or punishment
• Legal time limits for an arrested or detained person before being informed of the reasons for the arrest or detention,
before being brought to or having the case reviewed by an authority exercising judicial power, and for the trial duration of a person in detention
• International human rights treaties relevant to the right to liberty and security of person ratified by the State
• Date of entry into force and coverage of the right to liberty and security of person in the constitution or other forms of superior law
• Date of entry into force and coverage of domestic laws for implementing the right to liberty and security of person
• Time frame and coverage of policy and administrative framework against any arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether based on criminal charges, sentences or decisions by a court or
administrative grounds (e.g., immigration, mental impairment, educational purposes, vagrancy)
• Type of accreditation of national human rights institutions by the rules of procedure of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions
Arrest and detention based
on criminal charges
Illustrative indicators on the right to liberty and security of person (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 3)
IV. >> Illustrating the Framework - Indicators for Some Rights
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