Measuring human rights organization activity: A new dataset of over 120,000 press releases and 40 million social media posts Human rights organizations (HROs) occupy a central position in theoretical and empirical work on social control, human rights, and repression. The literature argues that HROs play a large role in shaping rights practices across countries. According to this view, HROs primarily influence rights practices by naming and shaming the abuses of rights violators via public pronouncements.
Measuring human rights organization influence: Evidence from 120,000 press releases and 30,000 congressional bills To what extent do human rights organizations (HROs) influence governments? HROs occupy a central role in theoretical and empirical work on social control, human rights, and repression. The literature argues that HROs play a large role in shaping rights practices across countries. According to this view, HROs primarily influence rights practices by naming and shaming the abuses of rights violators via public pronouncements.
The contours of human rights advocacy: Evidence from over 120,000 press releases issued by human rights organizations, 1996-2018 Have human rights improved across the globe? The answer to this fundamental question has considerable consequences for international and domestic policy and for how we understand the world around us. In this paper, we demonstrate why prior efforts to address this question provide biased answers. We then introduce a unique corpus of over 120,000 press releases from 10 international human rights organizations (HROs) that covers the years 1996-2018.