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International Human Rights Recommendations at Home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)

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Title International Human Rights Recommendations at Home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YDXKVX
 
Creator Jillienne Haglund
Courtney Hillebrecht
Hannah Roesch Read
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The legalization of international human rights has led to an explosion in the number of recommendations states receive each year regarding their domestic human rights practices. How do states respond to these recommendations, some of which may ask them to engage in significant domestic human rights reform? In this article, we introduce the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD), which allows scholars to answer this and a number of related questions. The WRCD provides compliance data on 2,558 recommendations across three institutions: CEDAW, the UPR, and the European Court of Human Rights. This article introduces the conceptual and empirical foundations of the WRCD and provides descriptive statistics of the data. Then, we situate the WRCD within the larger body of compliance data and illustrate how it not only fills a critical gap in the human rights compliance data landscape but also facilitates a robust future research agenda.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Cooperation
data
Europe
human rights
international organizations
justice
 
Contributor Interactions, International