tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43027465703475631952024-02-22T12:48:37.314-05:00CIRI Human Rights Data Projectwww.humanrightsdata.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-39573313116054600552021-11-29T13:02:00.000-05:002021-11-29T13:02:16.286-05:00CIRI Data & Documentation Now on DataverseAll data and documentation for the final version of the CIRI Human Rights Dataset can be found at the <a href="https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/cirihumanrightsdata" target="_blank">CIRI Human Rights Data Project Dataverse</a>. This change is now reflected on our <a href="http://www.humanrightsdata.com/p/data-documentation.html">Data & Documentation</a> page. CIRI Human Rights Data Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02594014831503003176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-66331379262805954372014-05-21T11:24:00.000-04:002014-05-21T11:24:22.542-04:00CIRI's New Address: www.humanrightsdata.comAs many of you have noticed, our old web address is no longer functioning. We have now moved all of our online operations over to a new address, <a href="http://www.humanrightsdata.com/">http://www.humanrightsdata.com</a>. As mentioned in an earlier post, you can access the entire data set by using the links in the menu at the top of that page:<br />
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<b>To download the complete CIRI data set,</b> click on the <b><a href="http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.com/p/data-documentation.html">Data & Documentation</a></b> link.<br />
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<b>The CIRI Coding Guide and other CIRI documentation</b> can also be found by clicking on the <a href="http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.com/p/data-documentation.html"><b>Data & Documentation</b></a> link.<br />
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<b>To view answers to CIRI's Frequently Asked Questions</b>, click on the <b><a href="http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.com/p/faq.html">FAQ</a> </b>link.CIRI Human Rights Data Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02594014831503003176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-21311038498068336812014-04-14T19:38:00.000-04:002014-04-14T19:38:25.163-04:00Data Update: Freedom of Domestic and Foreign MovementIt appears that a technical glitch resulted in some countries' scores for Freedom of Foreign Movement and Freedom of Domestic Movement being swapped in Version 2013.12.05 of the data set. We believe this problem has been corrected in the new version of the data set (Version 2014.04.14), which is now available on our <a href="http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.com/p/data-documentation.html">Data & Documentation</a> page.CIRI Human Rights Data Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02594014831503003176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-27329094787952029882014-02-23T15:50:00.000-05:002014-03-03T13:43:08.450-05:00Where to Find CIRI Data You can now access the entire data set<!--, the code book, and the rest of our documentation --> by using the links in the menu at the top of this page.<br />
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<b>To download the complete CIRI data set,</b> click on the <b><a href="http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.com/p/data-documentation.html">Data & Documentation</a></b> link.<br />
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<b>The CIRI Coding Guide and other CIRI documentation</b> can also be found by clicking on the <a href="http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.com/p/data-documentation.html"><b>Data & Documentation</b></a> link.<br />
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<b>To view answers to CIRI's Frequently Asked Questions</b>, click on the <b><a href="http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.com/p/faq.html">FAQ</a> </b>link.CIRI Human Rights Data Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02594014831503003176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-60992310367238435012013-08-29T12:59:00.000-04:002014-03-01T16:44:41.413-05:00HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2011: THE CIRI REPORT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The CIRI Human Rights Data Project has released its ratings of government respect for 16 internationally-recognized human rights in almost every country in the world for the year 2011. The CIRI Project’s data stretch back, annually, to 1981 and can be freely accessed at <a href="http://www.humanrightsdata.org/">www.humanrightsdata.org</a>.</div><br />
The CIRI data are used by governments, scholars, international organizations, businesses, think tanks, and students the world over for a variety of purposes. The project is co-directed by <a href="http://www2.binghamton.edu/political-science/faculty/david-cingranelli.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. David L. Cingranelli</a> (Binghamton University), <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/drdavid68/" target="_blank">Dr. David L. Richards</a> (University of Connecticut), and <a href="http://www.kchadclay.com/" target="_blank">Dr. K. Chad Clay</a> (University of Georgia). <br />
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This data release has also been accompanied by a number of changes at the CIRI Project. A new country was added to the data for 2011 (South Sudan), and, <a href="http://humanrightsdata.blogspot.com/2012/08/ciri-welcomes-new-co-director-k-chad.html" target="_blank">reflecting the addition of a new co-director (K. Chad Clay) in Fall 2012</a>, the project’s <a href="http://www.humanrightsdata.org/faq.asp#5" target="_blank">citation has changed</a>. Perhaps most importantly, CIRI’s release schedule has changed. In the future, data updates will be issued annually in January to cover the year that began two years previous. As such, the 2012 ratings will be released in January 2014.<br />
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Below, we present four stories from the 2011 data:<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><strong>THE BEST AND WORST OF 2011</strong></span><br />
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All 14 of CIRI’s individual indicators of particular human rights can be summed into an overall human rights score for each country in the world. The best score a country can receive is 30, representing high respect for all 14 human rights; the worst score is 0, representing very low respect for all 14 human rights. The world average was 17, and the USA scored 24 (tied for the 7th highest score, but still ranking behind 37 countries). Below are the best and worst of 2011.<br />
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<u>Top 9 Countries – Overall Respect</u><br />
Luxembourg [30]<br />
Netherlands [29]<br />
New Zealand [29]<br />
San Marino [29]<br />
Andorra [28]<br />
Australia [28]<br />
Denmark [28]<br />
Iceland [28]<br />
Norway [28]<br />
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<u>Bottom 9 Countries – Overall Respect</u><br />
Iran [1]<br />
Eritrea [2]<br />
Saudi Arabia [2]<br />
Burma [3]<br />
China [3]<br />
Libya [3]<br />
Yemen [3]<br />
Democratic People's Republic of Korea [4]<br />
Syria [4]<br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><strong>STABILITY & CHANGE IN RESPECT FOR PHYSICAL INTEGRITY RIGHTS</strong></span><br />
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The CIRI Physical Integrity Rights Index measures government respect for the freedoms from torture, extrajudicial killing, political imprisonment, and disappearance. It varies from 0 (no respect for physical integrity rights) to 8 (full respect for physical integrity rights). Overall, government respect for physical integrity declined in 2011, as the mean score on the physical integrity rights index fell from 5.01 in 2010 to 4.82 in 2011. In particular, respect for physical integrity rights saw the following dramatic changes in 2010-2011:<br />
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<u>Largest Declines in Respect for Physical Integrity Rights</u><br />
Bahrain [-5]<br />
Djibouti [-3]<br />
Egypt [-3]<br />
Republic of Korea [-3]<br />
Libya [-3]<br />
Mauritania [-3]<br />
Oman [-3]<br />
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<u>Largest Improvements in Respect for Physical Integrity Rights</u><br />
Panama [+4]<br />
Croatia [+3]<br />
Belarus [+2]<br />
Nepal [+2]<br />
Togo [+2]<br />
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Further, as these lists suggest, it would appear that changes in government respect for physical integrity rights in 2011 were not evenly distributed across the globe. Indeed, as demonstrated below, South Asian states experienced a net improvement in average government respect for physical integrity, while some of the largest declines in government respect for physical integrity rights were concentrated in the Near East & North Africa: <br />
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<u>Average Change in Respect for Physical Integrity Rights by Region</u><br />
Africa [-0.04]<br />
East Asia & the Pacific [-0.12]<br />
Europe & Eurasia [0]<br />
Near East & North Africa [-1.37]<br />
South Asia [+0.25]<br />
Western Hemisphere [-0.11]<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_m7xF8FRqGeknqbEkKKh0dNu5lZi6XvYGkLHwen6k9Cr3BSLo7WZDEqck3DjqJGVr56tBZ187MkRgyWWzYB83WjkpIs_ixmGXTb5hXLqx62-09HU0u4OujmNtAKiu9mnW8jLZ85ruEPlt/s1600/PhysintChange.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_m7xF8FRqGeknqbEkKKh0dNu5lZi6XvYGkLHwen6k9Cr3BSLo7WZDEqck3DjqJGVr56tBZ187MkRgyWWzYB83WjkpIs_ixmGXTb5hXLqx62-09HU0u4OujmNtAKiu9mnW8jLZ85ruEPlt/s640/PhysintChange.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><strong>THE “ARAB SPRING” & HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE NEAR EAST & NORTH AFRICA</strong></span><br />
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Beginning in Tunisia in December 2010, the wave of demonstrations, protests, and conflicts known as the “Arab Spring” swept through the Arab world in 2011. What effect did this have on respect for human rights in the Near East and North Africa (as defined by the US State Department)? Table 1 displays the change in the overall human rights score, as well as in the CIRI Physical Integrity Rights Index, from 2010 to 2011. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-YrgI6rIqNFwzJGAYioGCXvWpnm2hqtPrHU8ugK2DnoS2wH2aCyosTGaDd89xVlqU3CgnbyGbCSGpKHLi0oDpZcmLTyQqyFCzz4-KGA1SF6ghb5xw50c5QHs9C1A6lsm8Rc4Lsgm3xhW/s1600/ArabSpringTable2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-YrgI6rIqNFwzJGAYioGCXvWpnm2hqtPrHU8ugK2DnoS2wH2aCyosTGaDd89xVlqU3CgnbyGbCSGpKHLi0oDpZcmLTyQqyFCzz4-KGA1SF6ghb5xw50c5QHs9C1A6lsm8Rc4Lsgm3xhW/s1600/ArabSpringTable2.png" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As can be seen, most states in the region demonstrated reduced respect for human rights in 2011, particularly those states that experienced some of the highest levels of unrest that year, e.g. Bahrain, Libya, and Egypt. Of course, other states, like Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, already had extremely low scores on our indicators and thus, had little room to move down. On the other hand, Tunisia experienced a large increase in its overall human rights score, owing to the overthrow of its government early in the year and the elections held in October. However, this was not enough to overcome the high level of physical integrity rights abuse that accompanied the protests early in the year, which led to a decrease in respect for physical integrity rights from an already low score of 3 in 2010 to 2 in 2011.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>STABILITY & CHANGE IN WOMEN’S RIGHTS</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">CIRI also annually codes two measures of internationally-recognized women’s rights: women’s political rights and women’s economic rights. The women’s political rights measure is aimed at capturing the degree to which government laws and practices ensure that women enjoy the rights to vote, to run for political office, to hold elected and appointed government positions, to join political parties, and to petition government officials. The women’s economic rights measure captures the degree to which government laws and practices ensure that women enjoy equal pay for equal work, free choice of profession or employment, the right to gainful employment, equality in hiring and promotion, job security, freedom from discrimination by employers, freedom from sexual harassment, and the right to work in dangerous professions, including working at night and working in the military and police forces.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our two measures of women’s rights moved in opposite directions in 2011. While women’s political rights improved for the second straight year, women’s economic rights suffered a setback after two consecutive years of improvement. Indeed, this is in keeping with these measures’ performance over time. As shown in the graph below, respect for women’s economic rights has lagged behind respect for women’s political rights consistently since 1981. However, that gap has widened with time, as respect for women’s political rights has consistently grown while respect for women’s economic rights has remained relatively flat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeDNNcAWLXvk3gZkWRldGGsFDe9jWIReOrqp7b0HqiInC9pce4v5Wru9NB8YTA6IfpkeNA70pJnk-3TFxIf_3nFMBQcG9DCSuoSEwFWuh5tLOJUooxMQ7fnvJScxkJQ8c-lnwctBGvfry7/s1600/Women's+Rights+Graph.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="465" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeDNNcAWLXvk3gZkWRldGGsFDe9jWIReOrqp7b0HqiInC9pce4v5Wru9NB8YTA6IfpkeNA70pJnk-3TFxIf_3nFMBQcG9DCSuoSEwFWuh5tLOJUooxMQ7fnvJScxkJQ8c-lnwctBGvfry7/s640/Women's+Rights+Graph.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Note: The shapefile used to construct the above map comes from <a href="http://nils.weidmann.ws/projects/cshapes" target="_blank">Weidmann, Kuse, and Gleditsch’s cshapes</a>, version 0.4-2. The map was made using <a href="http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/graphics/spmap-and-maps/" target="_blank">Pisati’s spmap package</a> in Stata 12.1. Another version of this post can be viewed at the <a href="http://www.quantitativepeace.com/" target="_blank">The Quantitative Peace</a>.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-72306789603121994542013-07-26T09:32:00.001-04:002013-07-26T09:32:25.940-04:00Kosovo 1981 Issue ResolvedOur webmaster has resolved the aforementioned issue with the Kosovo 1981 country-year, so there should be no more need to manually remove those 0s from the dataset. Thanks for bearing with us on this!
Sincerely,
The CIRI TeamAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-17175612528375272572013-07-25T10:31:00.001-04:002013-07-25T10:31:43.879-04:00Kosovo 1981We are experiencing a technical glitch where the server is replacing blanks (no data) with 0s for the row of Kosovo, 1981. We're working on remedying this, but pleased be advised for the moment to remove those 0s from the dataset before analysis.
Sincerely,
The CIRI TeamAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-30140159115279987442013-07-01T14:54:00.005-04:002013-07-01T15:12:04.046-04:00Please Support our CIRI Human Rights Education Initiative <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting this fall with the release of our soon-to-be-announced web features, CIRI will be beginning a series of human rights-education initiatives. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the first of these endeavors, we are attempting funding via crowd-sourcing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are able to contribute, or know anyone that can, <i>we'd certainly appreciate your suppor</i>t. If this initial project succeeds, we have a host of exciting further ideas for promoting human rights education in high schools.</span><br />
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A campaign abstract is below. You can contribute via Paypal or other means at our crowd-sourcing website: <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ciri-human-rights-education-initiative/x/3817227">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ciri-human-rights-education-initiative/x/3817227</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For your contribution, you can probably receive some free CIRI swag, maybe immortality on our website, but most-definitely our eternal thanks and the knowledge of doing some good by raising knowledge/awareness of human rights!</span><br />
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Summary of Campaign</h3>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The goal of the CIRI Human Rights Education Initiative is to produce human rights-based lesson plans for use in high school classrooms. Funds will be used to pay an advanced Ph.D. student to work with high school social science teachers under the supervision of CIRI Co-Director Dr. David L. Richards to develop human rights-based lesson plans during the summer of 2014.These lesson plans will be made freely available on the CIRI website.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lesson plans will engage students with questions such as:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What are human rights?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which human rights are most-respected and/or violated by governments around the world, and why?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can we compare countries' respect for human rights both across geography and over time?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What can be done to better-protect human rights?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is the state of human rights in the USA?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By using CIRI data to address many of these questions, students will also learn and hone crucial evidence-based/critical thinking as well as quantitative-based comparative and comprehension skills.
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What We Need & What You Get</h3>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our campaign total is based on: (1) the cost of a half-time graduate research assistant for one summer (77% of total funds requested for campaign); (2) expenses related to working with high school teachers on lesson creation; (3) web-based distribution costs; (3) miscellaneous supplies.
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The Impact</h3>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The goal of the CIRI project is greater respect for human rights fueled by greater awareness of human rights, and we can't think of a better starting point than the high school classroom. Human rights education has come a long way at colleges -- to the point where it is now a major of its own. However, human rights on its own is just a budding subject in high schools. By combining a data-based approach with human rights education, the CIRI Initiative's lesson plans will meet dual needs: topical coverage of human rights and an introduction to quantitative comparison/analysis and evidence-based decision making.
</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-70629980744286935942013-05-11T20:10:00.001-04:002013-05-11T20:10:15.178-04:002011 Data Update, 2012 Data Update, Manual Update, SurpriseHi,<br />
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We have four things of note to share:<br />
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1. Work has been underway on the 2011 data. We hope to have those data uploaded for public access in late July or early August. We'll post updates here on the blog as things unfold.<br />
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2. This coming fall, we'll be working on the 2012 data. We hope to have those data uploaded for public access in January. We'll post updates here on the blog as things unfold.<br />
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3. This summer, we'll be releasing an updated version of our coding manual. The update reflects improvements over the last several years in how we train our coders. <br />
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4. Keep an eye out on this blog and on the CIRI website this year for a <i>major</i> addition to what we offer our users.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
CIRIAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-4474909108784121072013-03-26T17:43:00.002-04:002013-03-26T17:44:30.414-04:00A Lesson in Falsifiability for “Senator No” <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: white;">In 2009, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) used the CIRI Human Rights Data Project (<a href="http://www.humanrightsdata.org/">www.humanrightsdata.org</a>), as one
reason among others to argue for ceasing National Science Foundation funding
for political science research. He did not succeed then, but he will undoubtedly
succeed in 2013, given the recent Senate and House passages of the Continuing
Appropriations Act of 2013, containing this language. His amendment to this bill will block
approximately $10 million of NSF funding for political science research from
being used, except for that research which the Director of the NSF certifies is
in the interest of the United States’ economy or security. Coburn’s 2009
comments about the CIRI project persist in recent coverage of this week’s news
about the passage of the appropriations bill.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: white;">Interestingly, the situation in which we currently find
ourselves provides an opportunity to teach the Senator a basic scientific
concept: falsifiability. In essence, Senator Coburn has made a $10 million
hypothesis (educated guess) that his enumerated reasons for cutting NSF funding
of political science research are sound. Unlike in the world of science where
hypotheses must meet evidence and findings must pass peer review, however, the
Senator does not have to expose his hypothesis to systematic scrutiny. We can
do that here, however.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The CIRI Human Rights Data Project provides annual numeric
ratings of the level of government respect for 15 internationally-recognized
human rights in 195 countries, including the United States. With funds from the
NSF, in 2004 we launched a website that allows users to download these scores
for free. The majority of NSF funds went to our many graduate and undergraduate
student assistants. Currently, CIRI data are used in approximately 170
countries by governments, international organizations, researchers, activists,
businesses and, increasingly, students. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Senator Coburn leveled explicit criticism at the CIRI
project because we purportedly <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">“</span>concluded
that the United States has been ‘increasingly willing to torture enemy
combatants and imprison suspected terrorists,’ leading to a worldwide
increase in ‘human rights violations’ as others followed-suit.” </span></div>
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<br />
<span style="color: white;">That is false, Senator, on two counts:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: white;">First, the CIRI
project only codes what governments do to their own citizens. What governments
do to enemy and non-citizen combatants are not included in the CIRI dataset.
This has been made clear for anyone who takes the trouble to read our
data-creation guidelines, which have been freely accessible online since August
2004. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: white;">Second, whether other governments follow the lead of the US
in the use of torture is a causal research question. The CIRI project provides
data about respect for human rights; we do not, as an organization, test causal
research questions. The NSF money CIRI has received has gone towards data
creation and distribution, not the investigation of whether other countries are
more prone to use torture should the USA do so first. What Senator Coburn’s
statement about CIRI is based upon is a quote from David Cingranelli in a news item from December 2008, not anything relating to
the CIRI project’s data or its funding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">So, to the extent NSF funding for the CIRI Human Rights Data
Project has weighed in his decision, Senator Coburn has threatened $10 million
of federal funds for political science research based on an easily falsifiable
premise. Cutting millions of dollars of valuable social science research based
on a patently false supposition about the world is deplorable and unwise. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: white;">If the Senator is opposed to CIRI’s mission of providing
data to help provide a life of dignity to persons worldwide, it would be
honorable to be straightforward about that rather than engaging in mischaracterizations
in order to be seen as protecting the US citizenry from the wasteful funding of
projects which purportedly denigrate the United States without reason. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Finally, a special mention for Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), who was willing to go along with Coburn's language because she thinks the "national security" and "national economy" loopholes are big enough such that no research will actually be declined by NSF. That's a dangerously tunnel-visioned of research such that it all fits into one or both of two boxes. It also bends to the Bush-era winds that national security (defined as military expenditure and intervention) is the <i>only important factor</i> in this world -- a point of view antithetical to the very notion of human rights itself. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">-David L. Richards</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-67480438684832249172013-03-03T20:57:00.001-05:002013-03-03T20:57:20.204-05:00Up & RunningIt appears the CIRI website is back up and running at full functionality. We are grateful to our users for their patience and understanding during the outage. <br />
<br />
Best,<br />
All of us at CIRIAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-66799965501880126732013-03-01T13:06:00.003-05:002013-03-01T13:06:57.566-05:00Service InterruptionDear CIRI Users,<br />
<br />
We apologize for today's service interruption. Apparently our DNS provider, <a href="http://directnic.com/" target="_blank">Directnic</a>, took us offline by assigning two IP addresses to our website. Thus, access as of this point is random.<br />
<br />
If you can't access CIRI,<b> please </b>hit up Directnic on <a href="https://twitter.com/Directnic" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and/or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Directniccom/218442366042" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. and tell them to pay some attention to Trouble Ticket TT#2031436.<br />
<br />
They haven't responded to our entreaties, so maybe they'll move if they get some more hits about the issue.<br />
<br />
Best,<br />
CIRIAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-75219125695170805042013-01-23T12:31:00.000-05:002013-01-23T13:48:03.116-05:00CIRI Data Now Archived at Dodd Center<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Storrs, CT – Graphic stories of torture and forced disappearances
may seem more prevalent in certain parts of the world than others, based on
news accounts, resolutions deliberated by the United Nations, or reports issued
by watch dog organizations such as Amnesty International. But, in the larger
picture, what types of human rights are most and least respected by governments
in the world today and why? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The CIRI Human Rights Data Project, which tracks 15
separate human rights in 195 countries from 1981 to the present, allows this
larger picture to emerge. Now, UConn will host a digital archive of the
CIRI project’s data, as well as the CIRI website itself <span style="color: #eeeeee;">(</span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><a href="http://www.humanrightsdata.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">www.humanrightsdata.org</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">CIRI’s human rights data have been used by hundreds of
governments and global organizations, including the United Nations, the World
Bank, and USAID to make informed decisions. These data are also widely used by
academics, think tanks, and financial institutions for a variety of purposes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">“The CIRI dataset
provides highly-regarded quantitative indicators on the state of human rights
worldwide. For well over a decade they have been a valuable input to the
Worldwide Governance Indicators,” said Daniel Kaufmann, President of Revenue
Watch and coauthor of the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The CIRI project’s work spans three major research
universities: the State University of New York at Binghamton (since 2004), the
University of Connecticut (since 2010), and the University of Georgia (since
2012). The CIRI website allows users to either download the entire dataset, or
create a custom dataset, choosing specific indicators, years, and countries. CIRI
requires users to register in order to access the data, but the data are freely
available upon registration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To date, CIRI
counts more than 13,500 registered users. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“In this digital and data-driven age, measuring the human
rights practices of governments has become an important part of the global
human rights movement seeking to provide lives of dignity for all persons
worldwide,” contends CIRI co-director Dr. David L. Richards, associate
professor of political science and human rights at UConn. “And, having the CIRI
project here at UConn helps our students make a connection between data and
action in a first-hand way they would not get, otherwise. Best of all, perhaps:
by taking an active role in CIRI’s work, students take a real part in world
politics.” Richards notes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Richards is co-founder and co-director along with Dr.
David L. Cingranelli, professor of political science at SUNY Binghamton. Dr. K.
Chad Clay, assistant professor in the Department of International Affairs at
the University of Georgia joined as a third co-director in the fall of 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The CIRI project was initially designed for
use by scholars seeking to test theories about the causes and consequences of
human rights violations, as well as policymakers and analysts needing to
estimate the human rights effects of a wide variety of institutional changes
and public policies including democratization, economic aid, military aid,
structural adjustment, and humanitarian intervention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The CIRI archives constitute the first collection of
data deposited in UConn’s new digital repository, a project currently underway
for the campus community and the State of Connecticut by the University
Libraries’ Archives & Special Collections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Bringing the CIRI Data Project to Archives &
Special Collections will make it possible to provide long-term preservation of
the data as well as the opportunity to develop new visualization tools as part
of the Libraries’ support of research data management,” said Greg Colati,
director of Archives & Special Collections. Using
Richard’s work, the library is developing this new visualization tool in a
collaborative effort between Archives & Special Collections, the Libraries
Map and Geographic Center and CIRI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Richards says he is excited about working with Archives
& Special Collections on the new data visualization tools and expects all
of CIRI’s many types of users will make good use of this new feature, expected
to be available in the fall of 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The CIRI <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4302746570347563195" name="_GoBack"></a>project, which is
updated annually, provides measures of several types of internationally-recognized
human rights, including:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>physical
integrity rights, or the right not to be tortured, extra-judicially killed,
disappeared, or imprisoned for political beliefs; civil rights and liberties,
or the right to free speech, freedom of association and assembly, freedom of
domestic movement, freedom of international movement freedom of religion, and
to participate in free and fair elections for the selection of government
leaders. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also tracked are: workers’
rights, such as the right to bargain collectively; and women’s rights to legal
protection and equal treatment, politically and economically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Among CIRI’s users is the Tony Blair Faith
Foundation, which supports and collaborates with those who seek peace by
promoting understanding and respect between the world's major religions. “The Tony
Blair Faith Foundation has found CIRI data to be particularly useful in gauging
Human Rights information globally,” says Parna Taylor, Director of
Communications. “They are a valuable resource for the world and we are pleased
to be able to use their data.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While human rights has been taught at the collegiate
level for some time, interest in the field now extends to the secondary teachers
of Advanced Placement (AP) Comparative Government and Politics, making CIRI a
familiar resource to yet <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>another audience.
“By enabling students to look at patterns of respect and violations of human
rights, CIRI’s data allow the formulation of questions about differences in
respect across countries, differences in respect across time, and patterns of
respect among different rights within countries.” Richards says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Human rights violations are frequently reported as
narratives, as the stories of specific people -- which is also important for
highlighting the humanity of the victims and recognizing how their rights have
been violated,” observes Corinne Tagliarina, who is a Ph.D. candidate in
Political Science and in the Human Rights certificate program at UConn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The narrative method makes it difficult to
get a comprehensive look at how often specific countries violate different
human rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CIRI offers a big picture
view of human rights in the world.”</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-74994146151628287892013-01-15T13:11:00.000-05:002013-01-15T13:12:12.897-05:00New Book on Economic & Social Human Rights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A newly released volume from Cambridge University Press, <i>The State of Economic & Social Human Rights: A Global Overview</i>, edited by Lanse Minkler, offers interdisciplinary contributions aimed at enabling scholars and policy makers find the best ways to instantiate economic and social rights across multiple issue areas.<br />
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For details, see: <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6937386/?site_locale=en_US">http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6937386/?site_locale=en_US</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-26363146057216243052012-12-20T08:50:00.000-05:002012-12-20T08:50:02.780-05:00CIRI Offline January 7, 2013CIRI will be offline on Monday, January 7, 2013 in order to facilitate the moving of our server to <a href="http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/index.html" target="_blank">Archives & Special Collections</a> at the <a href="http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/" target="_blank">Thomas J. Dodd Research Center</a> at the University of Connecticut. <br />
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The CIRI Project itself will continue to be administered by David Cingranelli at Binghamton University and David Richards at The University of Connecticut, as well as by our new co-directorial addition, K. Chad Clay at The University of Georgia.<br />
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Our server's new home at Dodd will facilitate a lot of great new and powerful website features this coming year, as well as professional archiving of the data, so we are very excited about this.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-42658804890161943132012-12-11T09:47:00.003-05:002012-12-11T09:47:33.455-05:00Annual Data ReleaseDear CIRI Users,<br /><br />Just a reminder that, in order to maintain project stability and data quality
in the absence of external funding, CIRI has moved its annual
data-production process from spring to autumn.<br /><br />We
sincerely realize the inconvenience this might cause some of our users but, without
external funding, we are forced to take this step to ensure the reliability and
validity CIRI users expect and deserve.<br /><br />Given the finding of some funding, data for the calendar year 2011
should be available in the late spring / early summer of 2013. Data for the
calendar year 2012 will be available in early winter, 2014. Thereafter, the plan is that early
winter will be the annual data-release time frame.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />The CIRI
Project
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-57858402428749131372012-12-04T17:36:00.002-05:002012-12-04T17:36:40.723-05:00Do You Use CIRI In the Classroom?Do you use CIRI in your classroom? If so, we'd love for you to drop us an email <a href="mailto:info@humanrightsdata.org" target="_blank">HERE</a> and let us know the creative ways in which you incorporate data into your lectures / lesson plans. Improving human rights, methods, human security, and comparative & international politics education is central to our mission here at CIRI and we are about to put together assistance for teachers from middle school through graduate school. That project starts with us asking you for your expertise and experience so that we can help others. Thank you so much!<br />
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- The CIRI TeamAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-85432714934918647122012-10-20T10:47:00.004-04:002012-10-20T10:49:26.583-04:00New Article: Defending The Right to Leisure<div dir="ltr">
CIRI Co-Director David L. Richards and CIRI Research Assistant Ben Carbonetti have published “<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw4c9mvtQmzJTWhqOUpQOUhFR3c/edit?pli=1" target="_blank">Worth What We Decide: A Defense of the Right to Leisure</a>” in
the <i>International Journal of Human Rights</i>. The "OnlineFirst" e-version is out
now and the print version comes out in January.</div>
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One of the most routinely philosophically and politically attacked sections of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is article 24: ‘Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.’ Defending against these attacks is important. For example, only the USA and Somalia, among UN member states, are not parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). One reason for the USA’s status is political opposition to CRC article 31, which maintains ‘States parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure. . ..’ Our article defends article 24 from well-known criticisms. We maintain rights are social constructs and, as evidence of social construction, we provide a genealogy of article 24. We also address the social psychology of rest/leisure and trends in actual state practice. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-53158580244837153192012-08-09T16:25:00.002-04:002012-08-09T16:25:33.429-04:00CIRI Welcomes New Co-Director K. Chad ClayCIRI is very pleased to welcome new Co-Director, K. Chad Clay, who has worked on CIRI in varying roles since
2006.<br />
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Chad is an Assistant Professor in the <a href="http://intl.uga.edu/">Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia</a>, and his areas of specialization include international
relations, comparative politics, and methodology. His research focuses
on the impact of international factors on human rights practices,
political violence, and economic development. In particular, Chad has a
strong research interest in the spatial diffusion of these political
outcomes, as well as the institutions, organizations, and processes that
facilitate such diffusion. This research has been accepted for
publication in the <i>Journal of Politics</i> and <i>International Studies Quarterly</i>,
and he has received several grants and awards, most recently receiving
Binghamton University’s Graduate Student Award for Excellence in
Research.
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<br /><a href="http://www.kchadclay.com/" target="external">Click Here to Visit Chad Clay’s Webpage.</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-69013799401361987962012-08-03T14:25:00.004-04:002012-08-03T14:25:49.495-04:00New CIRI Production ScheduleDear CIRI Users,<br /><br />In order to maintain project stability and data quality
in the absence of external funding, CIRI will be moving its annual
data-production process from spring to autumn, effective immediately.<br /><br />We
realize the inconvenience this might cause some of our users but, without
external funding, we are forced to take this step to ensure the reliability and
validity CIRI users expect and deserve.<br /><br />Data for the calendar year 2011
should be available in the late spring / early summer of 2013. Data for the
calendar year 2012 will be available in early winter, 2014. Thereafter, early
winter will be the annual data-release time frame.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />The CIRI
ProjectAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-87442784790681014592012-06-22T07:37:00.000-04:002012-06-22T11:31:00.640-04:00New Report on TortureCIRI Co-Director David L. Richards, Mandy M. Morrill (Valparaiso University) and Mary R. Anderson (University of Tampa) have published a new report in the <i>Nordic Journal of Human Rights</i> on the origins of US attitudes towards torture. Among the findings are that while US citizens are largely opposed to "torture", generally, they at the same time are acceptant of a wide range of torture techniques when asked about them, individually. Also found are that previous exposure to violence is related to one's attitudes towards torture and those most acceptant of spanking as an appropriate punishment for a misbehaved child are most acceptant of torture. The report can be read here: <a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://bit.ly/PGCYrR" data-ultimate-url="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw4c9mvtQmzJOHNVdjRvY1VueU0/edit?pli=1" href="http://t.co/j4ZOd7hw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://bit.ly/PGCYrR">http://bit.ly/PGCYrR</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-1273192748413438032012-02-09T17:32:00.001-05:002012-02-09T17:32:43.779-05:00Cyber-Attacks On CIRIToday, the CIRI server has been hit by "countless brute force attempts" to remotely take control of the server. These attempts are believed to have originated in China.<br />
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We are glad to say that service to our users was not interrupted at any time, thanks to the IT team at Binghamton University.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-74171946046542671622012-01-22T10:22:00.001-05:002012-01-22T11:25:23.108-05:00New Human Rights Major @ UConnThe <a href="http://www.uconn.edu/" target="_blank">University of Connecticut</a> and its <a href="http://humanrights.uconn.edu/" target="_blank">Human Rights Institute</a> & <a href="http://clas.uconn.edu/" target="_blank">College of Liberal Arts & Sciences</a> have announced that a new undergraduate major in human rights will begin in May 2012. CIRI is very proud to be affiliated with these institutions and with this new interdisciplinary major, and encourages anyone thinking about an education in human rights to check it out. <br />
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Read the full story in <i>CLAS Today</i> <a href="http://www.clas.uconn.edu/news/fieldtrips/political_science/human_rights.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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For those interested in graduate studies in human rights, the Human Rights Institute at UConn already offers a <a href="http://humanrights.uconn.edu/academic/graduate.php" target="_blank">graduate certificate in human rights</a>, and many PhD-granting departments such as political science, history, English, anthropology, and economics have many top scholars in the field of human rights who participate in this program (as well as will be participating in the new undergraduate major).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-82176807910349613672012-01-17T14:41:00.000-05:002012-01-17T14:41:31.856-05:00SOPA StatementCIRI will not be joining Wikipedia in <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout">blacking out</a> its web presence in protest of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act">SOPA</a>. While opposing censorship in any form as a clear human rights violation, we feel it in the best interest of our core mission to stay online and continue to make available our ratings of government respect for human rights across the world. <br />
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That said, we provide -- in solidarity-- the following link to an <a href="https://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> analysis of how SOPA would likely constitute a violation of fundamental principles of freedom of speech: <a href="http://goo.gl/zsmOh">http://goo.gl/zsmOh</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09862249686011526375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4302746570347563195.post-68884496962073933242012-01-05T18:14:00.000-05:002012-01-05T23:43:23.528-05:00Follow CIRI on TwitterYou can now also follow CIRI on Twitter at @humanrightsdata <br/>
<a href="https://twitter.com/humanrightsdata" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false">Follow @humanrightsdata</a>
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Follow along as CIRI begins a new year and begins to produce its data about human rights respect in 2011. This year, also look for more CIRI-produced reports using these data.<br />
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Also on Twitter are:<br />
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CIRI Co-Director: David L. Richards @D_L_Richards<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/D_L_Richards" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false">Follow @D_L_Richards</a>
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CIRI Senior Associate: K. Chad Clay @kchadclay<br />
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