Respect for human rights is improving, study suggests

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 08:31 in Psychology & Sociology

By ignoring how the collection of data on political repression changes over time, human rights watchers may be misjudging reports that seem to show respect for human rights has not been improving, according to a political scientist. Over the last decade, political scientists have debated whether or not human rights practices have been stagnating, as the uncorrected data seem to indicate.

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