BREAKtheBIAS: For Equal Access to Human Rights Justice

这个项目力求解决国际人权制度中最具挑战性的问题之一- -获得人权司法公正的机会不平等。它着眼于10万个国际、地区和国内人权案件的结果，并确定哪些人能够向人权机构求助，哪些个人和团体在提出要求方面没有成功。通过查明限制进入的障碍和审查国际律师在这一过程中的作用，该项目在研究国际法中的不平等方面取得了重大进展。它以社会心理学家和行为经济学家的见解为基础，引入了一个开创性的新框架，通过这个框架，可以系统地分析针对人权受害者的偏见的存在和运作。通过研究隐性的、地域的和结构性的法律偏见，该项目旨在了解获取差异的原因，以便重新设计法律程序和现有结构，确保每个人都能平等地获得人权正义。该项目采用了高度原创的混合方法。它建立在15个人权机构判例法的大型数据集和10个司法管辖区的300多次访谈的基础上，以定量和定性地分析受害者的特征如何影响其人权主张的成功。在人权领域，它首次将亲身实验与计算机模拟相结合，以了解诉诸司法的动态，并发现如何利用新的国际规则和其他减轻偏见的干预措施来打破偏见。该项目的研究结果将对几个学术领域做出重要贡献，为我们如何理解和研究司法机会提供新的视角，同时提出的解决方案可以重要地帮助国际法院和法庭为所有人提供平等的司法。

This project seeks to address one of the most challenging problems in the international human rights system - that of unequal access to human rights justice. It looks at the outcomes of 100,000 international, regional, and domestic human rights cases and identifies who is able to turn to human rights bodies and which individuals and groups are unsuccessful in making their claims. By identifying barriers that restrict access and examining the role of international lawyers in the process, the project makes a significant advance in the study of inequities in international law. It builds on insights from social psychologists and behavioural economists to introduce a pioneering new framework through which the existence and operation of bias against human rights victims can be analysed systematically. By looking at implicit, geographical, and structural legal bias, the project aims to understand the cause of access disparities so that legal processes and existing structures can be redesigned to ensure equal access to human rights justice for everyone. The project adopts a highly original mixed-methods approach. It builds on a large dataset of the case law of fifteen human rights bodies and more than 300 interviews in ten jurisdictions to quantitatively and qualitatively analyse how victims' characteristics influence the success of their human rights claims. For the first time in human rights, it marries in-person experiments with computer simulation to understand the dynamics of access to justice and to discover how new international rules and other bias-mitigating interventions could be used to break the bias. The findings of the project will make an important contribution to several academic fields, shining a new light on how we understand and study access to justice, whilst the solutions proposed can importantly help international courts and tribunals impart equal justice for all.