Sentence examples for human rights indicators from inspiring English sources

Human rights indicators and budgetary analysis techniques are derived from human experience and aim to improve "real-life" spending outcomes – ie to get more for less.

In mapping out the Camorra's control over garbage and industrial waste removal, as well as drug dealing, construction and public works fraud, Saviano considers human rights indicators (the price of an AK-47 is low in Campania), and economic ones (in the 1990s, the Mercedes sales in one Campania town were among the highest in Europe).

Mr. Leahy said that "there are credible reports that President Obiang and his family have stolen large sums, possibly billions of dollars, from the people of Equatorial Guinea, one of the largest oil-producing countries in Africa with a per capita G.D.P. of over $30,000, but which ranks at or near the bottom of most health, education and human rights indicators".

The proliferation of business and human rights indicators seems unstoppable.

In practice, this means that the production of numerous business and human rights indicators is not a merely technical exercise, but an implicit normative process creating new standards.

I have already highlighted that those who control the production of business and human rights indicators inevitably make important normative decisions, even if they are sold as merely objective and technical ones.

In so doing, competent authorities may choose to either adjust their own data collection and monitoring systems to include human rights based indicators or use the new metrics separately on an ad hoc basis during periodic country performance reviews.

But before describing the research process, it is essential to define what a human rights based indicator is and understand some of the challenges associated with their development.

Widespread human rights violations continue, indicators have deteriorated, life expectancy has decreased and the percentage of people living below the poverty threshold has risen from 63 to 71 per cent since 1993.

In addition, and despite the fact that research on human rights monitoring and indicators in relation to health has increased exponentially over the last decade [ 35– 37], including a relatively minor focus on the rights of people with disabilities [ 38– 40], far too little attention has been paid to rehabilitation.

Levels of military expenditure, relations with neighbours and respect for human rights are among the indicators measured in the Global Peace Index.