Opening Remarks by Deputy High Commissioner Nada Al-Nashif Dear participants, dear panellists, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to the Permanent Missions of Luxembourg and Chile for...
UN Human Rights is calling for a data revolution -- prioritising leveraging data to confront human rights challenges. “We are in the midst of a data revolution that could radically improve the way we use data to better understand human rights concerns and risks, assess progress, monitor human rights, hold governments, businesses and individuals accountable and foster sustainable development,” said UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ilze Brands Kehris.
HUMAN RIGHTS INDICATORS (HRI) We make available relevant, robust and internationally comparable indicators on the human rights enjoyment by all. HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH TO DATA (HRBAD) We show how...
Throughout the current crisis, the international statistics community has continued to work together, in partnership with national statistical offices and systems around the world to ensure that the...
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) welcomes the publication of the new Guidance on “Governance Statistics in the COVID-19 Era” by the Praia City Group...
High rates of discrimination around the globe, and increasing numbers of civilians dying in conflict zones are some of the human rights data measures reflected in the annual progress report on the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) welcomes the publication of the Handbook on Governance Statistics by the Praia City Group established under the auspices of...
Updated illustrative tables of human rights indicators taking into account the global indicator framework adopted by the United Nations General Assembly to measure the implementation of the 2030...
The 2019 census in Kenya counted people who were never counted before. OHCHR’s human rights based approach to data influenced this recognition of communities that have historically been marginalised.
Policy specialists, statisticians and data scientists working in government or with civil society organizations, as well as development practitioners and human rights advocates should find A Human...
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