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.