This paper proposes a method for ranking country human rights performance that takes into account the performance of countries on a host of variables that are related to the protection of civil and political rights. The method involves two stages. The first stage employs principal component...

The proliferation of cheaper, faster and more powerful technology over the last few years has dramatically increased the ability of ordinary people to supply information of significant consequence through the public domain. The combination of mobile technology, access to Web 2.0 and greater...

This paper investigates the geo-political and international economic aspects of human rights performance using a pooled cross-section time-series data set. We start with simple descriptive accounts of the recent geographic history of human rights performance. We then test for basic economic...

This paper examines the ‘corrective' effects of different framings of the same historical event through a controlled experiment using the case of the 2013 domestic trial against former leader of Guatemala General Ríos Montt. The experiment uses video footage, commentary on the trial from...

We examine the geo-political and international spatial aspects of human rights (HR), using a purpose designed data-set. Applying tools from the spatial economics literature, we analyse the impact on a country’s HR performance of geographical proximity to its neighbours. Unlike previous...