Researchers at the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies are working for the advancement of human rights worldwide.
CIRIGHTS
World’s Largest Human Rights Dataset
Updates the CIRI human rights dataset and adds a number of new human rights measures.

CIRIGHTS contains quantitative measures for 72 internationally recognized human rights in 195 countries. The data, along with a suite of visualization tools, is freely available to scholars, students, NGOs, and anyone else interested in tracking global human rights. URI students and project leaders used the dataset to produce an annual International Human Rights Report.

Max Ludwig Yulia Avvakumova Lina Al Taan Al Hariri and Jack Cox Dr. Cingranelli M. Lind, J. Cox, M. Ludwig, Dr. Mark, Dr. Cingranelli, L. Al Taan Al Hariri, Y. Avvakumova, K. Sylvester Dr. Cingranelli and Dr. Mark
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APSA Best Book Award in HUMAN RIGHTS Section
2021 Winner
Chilton, Adam S., and Mila Versteeg. How Constitutional Rights Matter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
ISBN: 9780190871482, 9780190871468, 9780190871475
2020 Winner
Rauna Johanna Kuokkanen, Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance, and Gender (Oxford University Press, 2019).
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2019 Winner
Andrea Vilán, The Domestic Incorporation of Human Rights Treaties (Los Angeles: University of California, 2018).
2019 Winner
Margaret E. Roberts, Censored: Distraction and Diversion inside China’s Great Firewall (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020).
ISBN: 9780691204000
2018 Winner
Manfred Nowak, Human Rights or Global Capitalism: The Limits of Privatization, Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
ISBN: 9780812248753
2017 Winner
Onur Bakiner, Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy, Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
ISBN: 9780812247626
2015 Winner
Lisa Baldez, Defying Convention: US Resistance to the U.N. Treaty on Women’s Rights (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
ISBN: 9781107071483, 9781107416826
2014 Winner
Jeffrey Hilgert, Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work (Cornell University Press, 2018).
ISBN: 9780801451898, 9780801469237, 9780801469244
2014 Winner
Jo Becker, Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights Advocacy in Practice, Stanford Studies in Human Rights (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2013).
ISBN: 9780804774505, 9780804774512
2013 Winner
Jacqui True, The Political Economy of Violence against Women, Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012).
ISBN: 9780199755929, 9780199755912
2012 Winner
Richard Price, Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
ISBN: 9780812203721