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Title: Human Rights

Citation Type: Miscellaneous

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: Human rights describe moral norms or moral standards which are understood as inalienable fundamental rights of every human person. Human rights encompass a wide variety of rights, including but not limited to the right to a fair trial, protection of physical integrity, protection against enslavement, the right to free speech, and the right to education. The protection of human rights is certainly one of the most important aspects of development. Nevertheless, it receives much less attention than other aspects, presumably in part because it is so very hard to measure. If one is interested in empirically studying the protection of human rights, it is not enough to count countries that ratify human rights treaties; instead, the quantitative study of human rights aims to determine whether or not certain human rights are protected in practice.

Url: https://ourworldindata.org/human-rights

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Authors: Roser, Max

Publisher: Our World in Data

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other

Countries: United States