Where is the human rights discourse most resonant? We use aggregated cross-national
Google search data to test two divergent accounts of why human rights appeal to some …

This manuscript helps to resolve the ongoing debate concerning the effect of information
communication technology on human rights monitoring. We reconceptualize human rights …

We present new data on labor laws and practices for all countries of the world, recorded
annually from 1994 to 2010. The dataset covers seven different labor standards. These are …

Why do citizens in post-authoritarian democracies perceive that there is high respect for
individual human rights in their country when objective indicators suggest differently …

Most cross-national human rights datasets rely on human coding to produce yearly, country-
level indicators of state human rights practices. Hand-coding the documents that contain the …

The comparative study of atrocities and atrocity prevention faces several obstacles including
a lack of consensus on the universe of cases and too few cases to statistically test alternative …

This article describes the Human Trafficking Indicators (HTI) dataset, a new resource for
research on the causes of, and policy responses to, human trafficking. HTI includes country …

The observation, measurement, and analysis of violent and contentious processes are
essential parts of the scientific study of peace and conflict. However, concepts such as the …

Governments involved in civil wars often seek to shape foreign perceptions of the conflict
and of the government's role in the conflict. To this end, for example, many such …

There has been a growing movement around human rights cities (HRCs) in the last two
decades, supported by citizens, public institutions, civil society organizations, and academia …