Data and Methods

Using LLMs to update human rights datasets

New artificial intelligence tools are being released at a staggering pace, making traditional ways of data collection look outdated and potentially obsolete. However, the real …

Quality Assessment of the Academic Freedom Index: Strengths, Weaknesses, and How Best to Use It

A comprehensive review of the data quality of the first systematic global measurement of academic freedom, the Academic Freedom Index (AFI).

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The Constitutional Codification of Academic Freedom Over Time and Space

This article explores the global spread of domestic codifications of academic freedom norms by mapping constitutional provisions over time and space. Drawing on the new Academic …

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Janika Spannagel

Repressalien gegen Menschenrechtsverteidiger:innen im Umfeld der UNO: Monitoring und Maßnahmen

This article analyzes reprisals and intimidation against human rights defenders who engage with the United Nations, focusing on how such cases are monitored and addressed within …

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Janika Spannagel

Introducing Academic Freedom in Constitutions: A New Global Dataset, 1789–2022

The Academic Freedom in Constitutions dataset is a new resource that empirically maps constitutional guarantees of the freedom of science, of academic freedom, and of university …

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Janika Spannagel

The Academic Freedom Index and Its Indicators: Introduction to New Global Time-Series V-Dem Data

The Academic Freedom Index is the first conceptually thorough assessment of academic freedom worldwide and a times series dataset going back to 1900. While some previous datasets …

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Janika Spannagel

HRD-UN Dataset (2000–2016)

The HRD-UNCases Dataset includes 12,086 cases of individual human rights defenders raised by the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders in 3,807 communications between …

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Janika Spannagel

HRD-Amnesty Dataset (1961–2018)

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/ …

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Janika Spannagel

Understanding Human Rights Data and How (Not) to Use Them

Quantified data has become ubiquitous in human rights advocacy and research on topics as diverse as press freedom, political imprisonment, human rights defenders, academic freedom, …

Academic Freedom in Constitutions

The Academic Freedom in Constitutions (AFC) dataset is a global comparative dataset with de jure provisions on academic freedom at the level of national constitutions. It covers …

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Janika Spannagel