NIHR Participates in launching Results of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative Held on 22 and 30 June 2022
The Secretariat-General of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) has participated over two days in launching the results of the remotely-held Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) (Rights Tracker) 2022, inaugurated by Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Institute based in New Zealand supported by Asia-Pacific Forum (APF), which is the first global project to track human rights performance of countries systematically, with the aim of measuring the performance of countries in each of the human rights contained in the International Law.
The HRMI began with a set of civil and political rights, including the right to freedom from arbitrary arrest, the right to freedom from forced disappearance, the right to freedom from the death penalty, the right to freedom from extrajudicial execution, the right to freedom from torture and ill-treatment, the right to assembly and association, the right to opinion and expression, and the right to participate in government, as well as a set of economic, social and cultural rights, which include the right to education, the right to food, the right to health, the right to housing and the right to work.
The HRMI’s mission is to produce world-changing human rights data tools that track human rights performance of countries, focusing on the following six HRMI values:
-Collaboration – HRMI draws on the knowledge of human rights experts in the countries they are developing metrics for, and builds bridges between those experts, academics, and others to better understand and promote what improves human rights outcomes.
-Usefulness – HRMI exists to serve the world. They produce work that is useful and valuable for a range of people, and constantly iterate to improve its usefulness.
-Rigour – HRMI submits all their work for academic peer review and pursues the highest standards of rigour in producing their data.
-Transparency – HRMI is clear about their methodologies and their shortcomings, so that data users know where their measures have come from and can help initiate improvements.
-Innovation – HRMI actively seeks fresh insights to advance human rights through the development of new measures and new ways of using them to impact change.
-Independence – In order to be credible, HRMI produces measures of human rights independent of governments and other actors who may have conflicts of interest.
Each of these is constructed from internationally-comparable, publicly-available objective data, such as statistics, news and reports, from the country itself, international government and non-government organisations and UN experts.
