Archive
Below find all news, posts, and updates in chronological order by:
2023
September
- 2023 PTS Release
(September 22, 2023)
The 2023 PTS release provides scores for the annual reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the U.S. State Department for 2022.
2022
August
- 2022 PTS Release
(August 25, 2022)
The 2022 PTS release includes scores covering the 2021 annual reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the U.S. State Department.
2021
October
- 2021 PTS Release
(October 14, 2021)
Our 2021 PTS release includes scores covering events of 2020 as well as scores for previously uncoded reports.
- SVS Website Launch
(October 13, 2021)
We launched a new website for the Societal Violence Scale project -- measuring human rights violations by non-state actors.
2020
September
- 2020 PTS Release
(September 13, 2020)
Our 2020 PTS release includes scores covering events of 2019 as well as scores for previously uncoded reports.
2019
August
- 2019 PTS Release
(August 14, 2019)
We released the latest PTS Scores covering events of 2018 as well as a sample scores for previously uncoded reports.
2018
December
- 2018 PTS Release
(December 06, 2018)
We released the latest PTS Scores covering events of 2017. Our dataset now covers a 42-year period from 1976 to 2017.
2017
- Human Rights in Democracies
(December 15, 2017)
Peter Haschke's book exploring human rights practices in democracies.
October
- 2017 PTS Release
(October 11, 2017)
Today, we released the latest PTS Scores covering events of 2016. Our dataset now covers a 41-year period from 1976 to 2016.
2016
September
- 2016 PTS Release
(September 09, 2016)
We have released the latest PTS Scores covering events of 2015. Scores are based on the most recent human rights reports.
2015
August
- Introducing the Societal Violence Scale (SVS)
(August 27, 2015)
The Societal Violence Scale (SVS) has been released to complement the PTS' focus on state as opposed to non-state human rights violations.
July
- Missingness and Comparability of Scores
(July 17, 2015)
A note on whether one should replace missing scores in one scale with the values from one of the others.
- New Amnesty International Annual Reports
(July 01, 2015)
Unlike in 2014, Amnesty International has again released its annual report this year.
2014
August
- The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights
(August 26, 2014)
Two volume handbook on Human Rights edited by Anja Mihr and Mark Gibney.
January
- Watching Human Rights: The 101 Best Films
(January 25, 2014)
Mark Gibney's book on Human Rights in film and cinema.
2013
October
- Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations
(October 28, 2013)
Edited Volume on extraterritorial human rights obligations by Mark Gibney and Wouter Vandenhole
2010
- The Politics of Human Rights: The Quest for Dignity
(October 30, 2010)
Human Rights textbook by Sabine Carey, Mark Gibney, and the late Steven Poe.