Illustrating the Framework
Indicators for Some Rights
In today’s world where we are continuously facing the challenge
of investigating and analysing human rights abuses in complex
contexts, statistics can help enormously towards an understanding
of the scope and magnitude of these phenomena as well as, and
this is very important, to prevent future atrocities. Without statistics,
we will be condemned most probably to a partial vision and understanding of our reality.”
Fernando Castañon Alvarez1
The chapter illustrates the application of the conceptual and the methodological framework, outlined in
the earlier chapters of the Guide, to draw up tables
of indicators for different human rights. It focuses
on the common considerations that have shaped
the different tables and provides examples of the
reasoning behind the selection of attributes of
a human right and the corresponding cluster of
indicators. Since the procedure followed is identical
for all civil, cultural, economic, political and social
rights, only few representative tables of illustrative
indicators are discussed in some detail.
Learning objectives
1
What are the
considerations in
preparing the tables
of indicators?
2
3
4
What are the steps
in identifying attributes
of a right or a theme of
human rights relevance?
What are the steps
in selecting the relevant
indicators for each
attribute of a right?
What are the preliminary
steps in contextualizing
and building ownership
of the indicators at
country level?
1. Director, International Judicial Support, United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, and Executive Secretary,
Guatemalan Commission for Historical Clarification, in his address at the Montreux Conference on “Statistics, Development and
Human Rights”, September 2000.
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