Foreword......................................................................................................................................................III
Acknowledgements......................................................................................................................................V
Abbreviations and acronyms.......................................................................................................................X
Introduction....................................................................................................................................1
I.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND INDICATORS: RATIONALE AND SOME CONCERNS..........9
A. What are human rights?..................................................................................................................... 10
B. United Nations human rights mechanisms.........................................................................................15
C. Human rights indicators - notion and rationale................................................................................ 16
D. Some concerns and misconceptions..................................................................................................21
E. Indicators in the international legal framework................................................................................ 24
II.
CONCEPTUALIZING INDICATORS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS............................................. 27
A. Issues to address in human rights measurement............................................................................... 28
B. The conceptual framework................................................................................................................. 30
C. Some considerations in conceptualizing the indicators.................................................................. 42
D. Importance of context-specific indicators......................................................................................... 44
III.
METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO HUMAN RIGHTS INDICATORS................ 45
A. Ethical, statistical and human rights considerations in indicator selection..................................... 46
B. Sources and data-generating mechanisms....................................................................................... 51
C. Disaggregation of human rights indicators....................................................................................... 68
IV.
V.
ILLUSTRATING THE FRAMEWORK: INDICATORS FOR SOME RIGHTS................... 71
A. Considerations in preparing tables of indicators............................................................................. 72
B. Identifying the attributes......................................................................................................................76
C. Selecting the indicators...................................................................................................................... 77
D. Putting indicators into context and building country ownership..................................................... 85
FRAMEWORK IN PRACTICE: IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING RIGHTS........103
A. Using indicators for human rights....................................................................................................104
B. Interpreting statistical information from a human rights perspective............................................. 126
C. Setting up human rights monitoring systems................................................................................... 133
Annex I............................................................................................................................................... 141
Metadata sheets on selected indicators
Annex II.............................................................................................................................................. 167
Databases of United Nations and other international organizations on human rights issues
and population groups
Glossary of statistical terms........................................................................................ 171
Human Rights Indicators
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