What human rights are included in CIRI?
A. The CIRI dataset contains information about government respect for a wide range of human rights. The selection of the particular rights in the CIRI dataset does not imply that these rights are considered to be more important than other human rights. Rather, these are the rights for which we have reliable and systematically available information across time and space. Indeed, we hope to grow CIRI over time to ever-include more human rights as resources allow. CIRI currently includes measures of the practices of governments that allow or impede citizens who wish to exercise their: • Physical integrity rights–the rights not to be tortured, summarily executed, disappeared, or imprisoned for political beliefs. The scores of these variables can be summed to form a statistically valid cumulative scale (Cingranelli and Richards, 1999; Richards, Gelleny, and Sacko, 2001). Please see our bibliography page for full references. • Civil liberties such as free speech, freedom of association and
