Measuring Human Rights

The measurement of human rights has long been debated throughout the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights.Written by leading experts in the field, this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive book on how to measure human rights.Measuring Human Rights :draws explicitly on the extant international law of human rights to derive the content of human rights that ought to be measured contains a comprehensive methodological framework for operationalizing this human rights content into human rights measures includes separate chapters on the methods, strengths and weaknesses of events-based measures, standards-based measures, survey-based measures, and official statistics covers measures of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights is written with one authorial 'voice' in addition to standard bibliographic references, it also includes lists of sources and locations for extant data sets useful for the measurement of human rights.This volume offers a wonderful new addition to this important area of work in the field of human rights, and will be of interest to academics and NGOs, INGOs, international governmental organizations, international financial institutions, and national governments themselves.Edzia Carvalho is the author of 'Measuring Human Rights', published 2009 under ISBN 9780415446495 and ISBN 041544649X.