BREAKtheBIAS: For Equal Access to Human Rights Justice

该项目力求解决国际人权制度中最具挑战性的问题之一--不平等地获得人权正义的问题。它审查了100,000个国际、区域和国内人权案件的结果，并确定了哪些人能够向人权机构求助，哪些个人和团体不能成功地提出自己的主张。通过查明限制准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，提出了一个开创性的新框架，通过该框架可以系统地分析对人权受害者的偏见的存在和运作。通过研究隐含的、地域的和结构性的法律偏见，该项目旨在了解机会差距的原因，以便重新设计法律程序和现有结构，以确保每个人都能平等地获得人权正义。该项目采用了极具原创性的混合方法。它以15个人权机构的判例法和十个司法管辖区的300多次访谈的大量数据库为基础，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，它第一次将面对面的实验与计算机模拟结合起来，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。该项目的调查结果将对几个学术领域作出重要贡献，为我们如何理解和研究诉诸司法提供新的启示，同时提出的解决办法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.