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The Global Rights Project (GRIP) on Thursday released its second annual report on human rights for 2024, providing failing grades to more than half of the globe’s countries.
In this year’s GRIP report, 62 percent of all countries received an F evaluation, which was the lowest grade possible. Only 18 percent received between an A and B. The countries with the highest scores were Iceland, Estonia, Denmark, Finland, and Monaco.
The GRIP report based its grades upon data from the CIRIGHTS Project. Skip Mark, an assistant professor of political science and the director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island (URI), stated: “The CIRIGHTS project shows that global respect has declined over the past decade. Despite a growth in human rights law, institutions, NGOs, and technology to document and disseminate information about human rights, things are getting worse.”
The report was based on a set of human rights that included rights on physical integrity, such as disappearances and torture, and empowerment rights, such as women’s rights and free speech. The rights of workers and justice were also measured, including protection from child labor and the right to a fair trial.
The worst-performing countries according to the report were Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, Yemen, and South Sudan. These countries have faced dire human rights situations in the past year. In Afghanistan, for example, states have recently urged legal action against the Taliban for violations of women’s rights and condemned the use of capital punishment.
The United States received a D score, failing in human rights categories on physical integrity and worker’s rights. Moreover, the US has not ratified some international human rights treaties such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which the report found hinders its protection of human rights in some areas.
A group of researchers based at URI developed the GRIP project. Although this year’s global median score was 52, up two points from the 2023 report, the assessment still presents a general disregard for human rights, which requires international attention. The researchers stated, “The current tools used to improve human rights and hold leaders accountable are not working and a new approach may be necessary to improve human rights globally.”
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In this year’s GRIP report, 62 percent of all countries received an F evaluation, which was the lowest grade possible. Only 18 percent received between an A and B. The countries with the highest scores were Iceland, Estonia, Denmark, Finland, and Monaco.
The GRIP report based its grades upon data from the CIRIGHTS Project. Skip Mark, an assistant professor of political science and the director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island (URI), stated: “The CIRIGHTS project shows that global respect has declined over the past decade. Despite a growth in human rights law, institutions, NGOs, and technology to document and disseminate information about human rights, things are getting worse.”
The report was based on a set of human rights that included rights on physical integrity, such as disappearances and torture, and empowerment rights, such as women’s rights and free speech. The rights of workers and justice were also measured, including protection from child labor and the right to a fair trial.
The worst-performing countries according to the report were Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, Yemen, and South Sudan. These countries have faced dire human rights situations in the past year. In Afghanistan, for example, states have recently urged legal action against the Taliban for violations of women’s rights and condemned the use of capital punishment.
The United States received a D score, failing in human rights categories on physical integrity and worker’s rights. Moreover, the US has not ratified some international human rights treaties such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which the report found hinders its protection of human rights in some areas.
A group of researchers based at URI developed the GRIP project. Although this year’s global median score was 52, up two points from the 2023 report, the assessment still presents a general disregard for human rights, which requires international attention. The researchers stated, “The current tools used to improve human rights and hold leaders accountable are not working and a new approach may be necessary to improve human rights globally.”
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