HRD-Amnesty Dataset (1961–2018)
Abstract
The dataset contains 38,929 English language documents of all kinds published by Amnesty International and scraped from the Amnesty website https://www.amnesty.org/en/search/ covering the time span from January 1st, 1961 to June 8th, 2018. It includes counts of the number of mentions of various terms such as “rights defender” or “prisoner of conscience” for each document.
Type
Publication
Harvard Dataverse
Authors
Researcher in Political Science
I am passionate about exploring and comparing human rights protection and state coercion in democratic as well as authoritarian contexts. For my work and studies, I have received various scholarships and awards, and spent considerable time abroad in countries on five continents. I was previously a visiting scholar at Stanford University, USA, and a research fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute, Germany, where I co-developed the Academic Freedom Index. I hold a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Freiburg.