The Global RIghts Project

Creating an annual human rights report card for all countries of the world

The Global RIghts Project (GRIP) draws upon the world’s largest quantitative human rights database to create an annual report on global human rights practices.

The GRIP annual report grades each nation of the world according to its respect for a suite 25 representative human rights. Measures for each right are drawn from the CIRIGHTS Data Project, which aims to measure every human right in every country on an ongoing basis.

Our goals:

Provide policymakers, NGOs, journalists, and others with objective information about human rights practices worldwide.

Deepen our understanding of the factors that predict better or worse human rights practices while tracking trends over time.

Involve students in textual analysis and other techniques used to objectively measure human rights.

2023 GRIP Annual Report

Released on Dec. 7, 2023, the inaugural GRIP annual report is the first global human rights report card to be release in 40 years. The report is produced by researchers in the URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies in association with the CIRIGHTS Data Project.

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Meet the Team

The Global RIghts Project is led by an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students from the URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the Department of Political Science.

Meet the Team

The Global RIghts Project is a collaboration between the URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, the Department of Political Science and the CIRIGHTS Data Project.

Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies

The Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies is an academic gathering place where students, scholars, educators–the change makers–come together to promote mutual understanding, reconcile conflicts, and build peaceful, sustainable, and inclusive communities.

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The CIRIGHTS Data Project

Human rights scores are necessary for understanding why governments violate human rights, why they violate some rights more than others, and how violations affect conflict and development. The goal of CIRIGHTS is to create numerical measures for every internationally recognized human right for all countries of the world.

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URI Department of Political Science

Our faculty are winners of prestigious teaching awards and leading researchers in areas ranging from post-Cold War Russian relations and technology’s impact on political campaigns to the role of emotions in decision making.

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Contact Us

Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies
Multicultural Student Service Center, Room 202
74 Lower College Road
Kingston, RI 02881

Ph: 401.874.2875
nonviolence@etal.uri.edu