Refining the Methodology of Rights-Based Monitoring- the Role of Human Rights Indicators

Abstract

How can one hold a government accountable for its human rights obligations? What is the best way to assess or monitor the implementation of various international Human Rights Conventions? Civil society groups, inter- governmental organizations, UN treaty-bodies, charter-bodies and individual states have been grappling with these questions over the past three decades or more. What is relatively new, however, is the recourse these groups have begun to take in the use of quantitative indicators.