Construction of a system of human rights indicators
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Purpose:
The purpose of the activities are to implement a system of human rights indicators based on public statistics, involving:
- international and national experiences as well as the scope and evolution of Human Rights concepts
- a methodological instrument for the building of the system
- the model contemplates distincts levels of disagregation: national, state level, and municipal level
- besides the systems is intended to be updated each year or at least each two years
- a case study on violence using homicide mortality among young males in Rio de Janeiro desagregated to the smaller intra urban areas, ranked according the level of violence; this classification is linked to infrastructure, living conditions and income of the families, personnel and resources allocated in schooling and defense.
Area of Governance :
Human Rights
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Cost (specify currency):
40 000 USD
Funding sources:
Ford Foundation
Source of Data:
Using other existing sources of data
Type of Data Collection:
Aggregation of multiple indicators using various d...
Census
Events registration
Panel of experts
Random sample population survey
Secondary sources
Specifications of type of data collection:
Other data utilised: Mortality Statistics
List of Indicators:
Human Rights are considered in three lines: civil rights ( assess to justice and violence), social, economic and cultural rights ( the ESCR) and sexual and reproductive rights; race and gender are cross cutting variables to account for discrimination.