Extending the Human Rights Atlas

该项目是ESRC资助的后续项目“人权地图集”(ES/J000728/1)的延续，该项目整理了1981年至2011年期间世界上所有国家和领土的基本国家统计数据、法律问题和人权实践数据[www.Human rightsatlas.org]。继续阶段包括更新主要平面文件中的数据，并积极向拉丁美洲的一个主要用户群体分发《阿特拉斯》；协助该用户群体利用《阿特拉斯》绘制和分析1990年至2011年期间拉丁美洲的人权问题；与两个私营组织--麦克曼集团和汤姆森路透社基金会--合作，继续提高人们对《阿特拉斯》的认识。墨西哥城社会科学学院(FLACSO)正在协调拉丁美洲用户组，该学院正在绘制该区域的人权地图，并利用《人权地图集》中已经整理的这类比较统计指标查明人权知识方面的差距。这项工作涉及与FLACSO及其研究人员网络在墨西哥城举办的研讨会。在本报告所设想的期间，该区域本身经历了显著和戏剧性的政治变革，包括摆脱长期的威权主义、过渡司法进程、重新建立和巩固民主、结构调整和宏观经济复苏，以及墨西哥、巴西、阿根廷和智利等区域大国的经济快速发展。《地图集》提供了系统的资源，满足了这一研究网络的主要数据需求。该项目的第二个主要部分是与Mackman集团(最初的人权地图集项目的私营部门合作伙伴)和汤姆森路透社基金会(全球媒体公司汤姆森路透社的慈善基金会)合作，传播地图集资源，并提高广大用户对跨国人权指标的认识，包括公共和私营部门的关键组织。该项目的这一部分将利用麦克曼集团的营销技术和汤森路透的AlertNet资源，后者致力于世界各地的人道主义部门。除了在线推广工作外，该项目还将在其金丝雀码头设施举办由汤森路透主办的伦敦大型用户参与活动。这次活动将有来自人道主义部门的知名全球领导人参加，讨论用户对系统数据的需求，以及最初的Atlas项目所进行的那种数据可视化。

This project is a continuation of the ESRC-funded follow-on project Human Rights Atlas (ES/J000728/1) which has collated data on basic country statistics, legal comitments and human rights practices for all the countries and territories in the world for the period 1981 to 2011 [www.humanrightsatlas.org]. The continuation phase involves updating of the data in the main flat file and actively disseminating the Atlas to a primary user group in Latin America; assisting the user group in using the Atlas to map and analyse human rights issues in Latin America for the period 1990 to 2011; and working with two private organisations - The Mackman Group and the Thomson Reuters Foundation - to continue to raise awareness about the Atlas. The Latin American user group is being coordinated by the Faculty of Social Sciences in Mexico City (FLACSO), which is mapping human rights in the region and identifying gaps in knowledge about human rights using comparative statistical indicators of the kind already collated in the Human Rights Atlas. The work involves a workshop in Mexico City with FLACSO and its network of its researchers. The region itself had undergone remarkable and dramatic political transformations over the period envisaged for this study, including extraction from prolonged periods of authoritarianism, processes of transitional justice, re-establishment and consolidation of democracy, structural adjustment and macro-economic recovery, and rapid economic development among big regional actors such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. The Atlas provides a systematic resource that addresses the main data needs of this research network. The second main part of the project is to work with the Mackman Group (a private sector partner in the original Human Rights Atlas project) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation (the charitable fundation of the global media company Thomson Reuters) to disseminate the Atlas resource and raise awareness about cross-national human rights indicators for a wide range of users, including key organisations from the public and private sectors. This part of the project will take advantage of the Mackman Group's marketing technologies and Thomson Reuters' AlertNet resource, which is dedicated to the humanitarian sector around the world. In addition to the on-line promotional work, the project will also host a large London-based user engagement event hosted by Thomson Reuters in its Canary Wharf facility. This event will feature high profile global leaders from the humanitarian sector to discuss the needs of users for systematic data and data visualisation of the kind carried out by the original Atlas project.