This repository contains data on the ratification of the core United Nations human rights instruments. The data was extrapolated from the United Nations Treaty Collection's webpage.
NOTE: These files does not include all state parties to the convention. They only measure UN member states' willingness to ratify these legal instruments.
- ICERD: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)
- ICCPR: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
- ICESCR: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
- CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)
- CAT: Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
- CRC: Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
- ICMW: International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (1990)
- CPED: International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006)
- CRPD: Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)
- ICESCR-OP: Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2008)
- ICCPR-OP1: Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
- ICCPR-OP2: Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty (1989)
- OP-CEDAW: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1999)
- OP-CRC-AC: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (2000)
- OC-CRC-SC: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (2000)
- OP-CRC-IC: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure (2011)
- OP-CAT: Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2002)
- OP-CRPD: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)
All the files use the same data structure:
- iso2 - Represents the ISO2 code for the U.N. member state.
- member - The name of the UN member state, usually in the English language.
- state party - It is a dichotomous variable: 1 equals the member's ratification of the treaty.
- year ratification or accession - This is the year the member state ratified the the convention.
- signatory - A dichotomous variable that captures whether a state that has not ratified the treaty has signed it.
- no action - A dichotomous variable: 1 equals a state which has not signed or ratified the convention.
- status - The variable captures describes UN member state's status regarding the convention. It offers three options: state party, signatory state or no action.
- notes - Text explaining a particular observation.