The Rights Track

In this Episode of the Rights Track and on International Human Rights Day, Todd asks Professor Chris Fariss of Pennsylvania State University about the methods he uses to look at the human rights performance of countries around the world and whether over time we have become better at practising and upholding people’s human rights. 0.00-5.00 mins they discuss whether: the way we measure the human rights performance of different countries has improved in recent years there is more information available on people’s lived experiences of human rights abuses our increased awareness of human rights problems has led to increased condemnation of countries our expectations of how a country will behave are higher than they used to be 05:00-13:02 mins is a discussion of Chris’ research, specifically Respect for human rights has improved over time: modelling the changing standard of accountability. This part of the episode includes: an explanation of ‘changing standard of accountability’ the data Chris used and the mode