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 of 24 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.
24 human rights measured in the 2024 report
Physical Integrity |
Empowerment | Worker Rights |
Justice Rights |
Disappearances | Assembly & Association | Unionization | Independent Judiciary |
Extrajudicial Killings | Foreign Movement | Collective Bargaining | Fair Trial |
Political Imprisonment | Domestic Movement | Working Hours | NGO Freedom |
Torture | Free Speech and Press | Forced Labor | |
Atrocities | Self-Determination | Child labor | |
Religious Freedom | Minimum Wage | ||
Women’s Economic Rights | Safe Working Conditions | ||
Women’s Political Rights | |||
Women’s Social Rights |
21st Century Average Human Rights Respect Globally
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.
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.
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