Database on violations of Human Rights by government bodies and officials

Name of Organization: 
Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman)
Geographical Scope: 
Regions:
Country:
Purpose: 
The objective of this programme is to help to the Office to identify the situation and analyze all cases and reasons of violations of human rights in the country.
Area of Governance : 
Human Rights
Public Administration
Website of initiative: 
http://www.ombudsman.gov.az
Publications: 
This information is used in the Annual Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Funding sources: 
UNDP
Source of Data: 
Own source of data
Type of Data Collection: 
Administrative Data
Specifications of type of data collection: 
Data are collected through the received complaints. After the investigation of each complaint received by the Ombudsman of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the staff members indicate all information about complainers, their applications, the type and the category of violated rights, name of institutions and officials which violate their rights and results of investigations.
Measurement Methods / Tools Generated or Used : 
From this programme we can get the information about each case, the percent of each category of violated rights, which institution, government official is violating rights more, or in which region. It is possible to search any kind of information in different parameters such as information based on gender, age, region and etc.
List of Indicators: 
There are different operations and indicators for this programme. The main indicators of the programme are the following:
 
  1. General information about applicant including name, gender, address, social status of applicant and etc.
  2. subject of complaint
  3. category of violated rights
  4. reference of experts
  5. investigation process
  6. results of investigation, etc.
Main Users: 
Civil society
International agencies
Media
Other
Policy makers
Researchers