Human rights indicators : a guide to measurement and implementation.

Includes bibliographical references.

Human rights and indicators: rationale and some concerns -- Conceptualizing indicators for human rights -- Methodological approaches to human rights indicators. Ethical, statistical and human rights considerations in indicator selection -- Sources and data-generating mechanisms -- Disaggregation of human rights indicators -- Illustrating the framework: indicators for some rights -- Framework in practice: implementing and monitoring rights.

"The basic structure of the Guide is geared towards supporting a systematic and comprehensive translation of universal human rights standards into indicators that are contextually relevant. This approach favours using objective information which is easily available, or can be collected, for monitoring the national implementation of human rights. This requires the reader to: [1] Understand the conceptual approach so as to identify indicators, after developing a preliminary understanding of the human rights normative framework; [2] Explore the alternative data-generating methods to populate the selected indicators; and [3] Apply and interpret the numbers that go with an indicator so as to build an assessment on the state of human rights."--P. 8.