UN Treaties
Push countries to ratify UN treaties!
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Meet the team
| Name | @github | Role | Working on | Season | |
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| - | Anastasiia Filchenko | - | Developer | Visualization | Autumn 2018 |
| - | John Melin | - | Developer | UX/Front-end | Autumn 2018 |
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Kleng Bråtveit | @klengbratveit | Idea provider, Project Lead | UX | Spring 2018 |
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Dirk Hesse | @dhesse | Developer | Crawler | Spring 2018 |
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Emma Scala | @makingwaves27 | Developer | Crawler | Spring 2018 |
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Geir Arne Hjelle | @gahjelle | Project Lead, Developer | Crawler, Visualization | Spring/Autumn 2018 |
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Harjeet Harpal | @tanyuu | Developer | Crawler | Spring 2018 |
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Patrick Merlot | @patechoc | Developer | Crawler, Visualization | Spring/Autumn 2018 |
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We Need Your Help
See all tasks or click in the table below to find a list of specfic tasks.
What Are We Doing?
This project is mainly split into four parts:
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Crawler: Scrape data from the UN Treaties web site
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Data Preparation: Organize the data into a nice-to-work-with CSV or similar
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Visualization: Create visualizations that illustrate the data
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Impact: Use the data and visualizations to incentivize more countries to ratify treaties
See the original project idea for the initial discussion.
Goal
Our goals are:
- to make information about UN Treaties more accessible to people,
- to incentivize people in power to sign/follow up on treaties.
Existing solutions/articles discussing the ratification of treaties
- http://indicators.ohchr.org
- List of treaties by number of parties (Wikipedia)
- United States Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties (Article by Human Rights Watch)
- Human Rights Library (University of Minnesota)
- an article advocating against the ratification of a treaty by the USA: interesting to see what arguments are used to justify such position.
- Where does the US stand on UN human rights conventions? (Jan.2018): something that should easily stand out from any visualization of these (non-) ratifications.