Ethical Consumer Uses CIRI for List of Oppressive Regimes

The group Ethical Consumer has used CIRI data to compile its 2011 list of "oppressive regimes".
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Ethical Consumer's primary goal is making global businesses more sustainable through consumer pressure, and they explain the importance to this mission of identifying oppressive regimes:

Ethical Consumer was propelled into being over twenty years ago by the boycott of South Africa and the pressing need for citizens around the world to take a stand against apartheid.  We have used economic support for oppressive regimes as a barometer of corporate social responsibility ever since, and companies with operations in such countries are penalised under our rating system.  The rationale behind this is straightforward: companies benefit from the very conditions which contribute to oppression, such as harsh labour conditions, lax environmental regulations and an economic environment conducive to corruption and tax avoidance.  Furthermore, trading with a regime helps to make it financially viable.  Oppressive regimes are supported by a series of economic ties without which they would not survive.  Foreign investment is a crucial element of this.

Reliability Estimate of Judicial Independence Measure

Research Associate K. Chad Clay recently conducted an inter-rater reliability analysis of the 2008 Judicial Independence data, and the Krippendorff's r-bar statistic of reliability was 0.949.

Human Rights Measurement Conference, June 6-7

The "International Network on Quantitative Methods for Human Rights & Development" will be holding its 2nd Annual Meeting at The New School in NYC on June 6th and 7th, 2011. [View Program Here]  Among the presenters are CIRI Co-Director David L. Richards and former CIRI Research Assistant Jill Haglund.

CIRI Publication: Human Rights Quarterly

Cingranelli, David L. and David L. Richards. 2010. "The Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project." Human Rights Quarterly 32.2: 401-424. [LINK]

CIRI-Based Publications

We will be using the CIRI Blog to announce publications / reports that make use of the CIRI data. If you have used the CIRI data in a publication or report, please drop us a line at info@humanrightsdata.org and we will post it on our blog!

Quotation-Mark Error Fixed

Due to a quirk in the assembly of Excel files, the names of some countries in the dataset were coming up with quotation marks around them, complicating sorts of the data. This error has now been fixed, and all quotation marks are gone from country names.

CIRI In Full-Production Mode, Creating 2010 Data

CIRI research associate and UConn doctoral student Corinne Tagliarina (bottom left) works on Foreign Movement ratings with undergraduate research assistants Carly Calabrese and Erin Franklin (L-R).

The CIRI Human Rights Data Project is now in full swing at both its University of Connecticut and Binghamton University, SUNY, research sites. Each year, CIRI's senior staff works with teams of undergraduate and graduate research assistants to begin the process of rating government respect for human rights across the world for the previous year. The data-creation process, from beginning to end, will involve more than 30 persons, take about 8 months total, and culminate with the official release of the new data on Human Rights Day, December 10th.




























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