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2023 PTS Release
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 PTS Release
The 2022 PTS release includes scores covering the 2021 annual reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the U.S. State Department.
2021 PTS Release
Our 2021 PTS release includes scores covering events of 2020 as well as scores for previously uncoded reports.
SVS Website Launch
We launched a new website for the Societal Violence Scale project -- measuring human rights violations by non-state actors.
2020 PTS Release
Our 2020 PTS release includes scores covering events of 2019 as well as scores for previously uncoded reports.
2019 PTS Release
We released the latest PTS Scores covering events of 2018 as well as a sample scores for previously uncoded reports.
2018 PTS Release
We released the latest PTS Scores covering events of 2017. Our dataset now covers a 42-year period from 1976 to 2017.
Human Rights in Democracies
Peter Haschke's book exploring human rights practices in democracies.
2017 PTS Release
Today, we released the latest PTS Scores covering events of 2016. Our dataset now covers a 41-year period from 1976 to 2016.
2016 PTS Release
We have released the latest PTS Scores covering events of 2015. Scores are based on the most recent human rights reports.
Introducing the Societal Violence Scale (SVS)
The Societal Violence Scale (SVS) has been released to complement the PTS' focus on state as opposed to non-state human rights violations.
Missingness and Comparability of Scores
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
Unlike in 2014, Amnesty International has again released its annual report this year.
The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights
Two volume handbook on Human Rights edited by Anja Mihr and Mark Gibney.
Watching Human Rights: The 101 Best Films
Mark Gibney's book on Human Rights in film and cinema.
Litigating Transnational Human Rights Obligations
Edited Volume on extraterritorial human rights obligations by Mark Gibney and Wouter Vandenhole
The Politics of Human Rights: The Quest for Dignity
Human Rights textbook by Sabine Carey, Mark Gibney, and the late Steven Poe.