[Project] Human Rights Recommendations in Geneva

[maxarvid]

Pitch

This one requires a bit of background. In the Human Rights Council (yes, the one that the Trump administration recently bowed out of) there is a process called the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). In short, it's a review process where every country goes in front of a panel of three other countries and has its human rights record review. The panel of three countries (the troika) then makes recommendations that the country under review can either 'note' or 'support.' To translate this from diplomatic language: noted = screw you, we don't agree, and supported = yes, we recognize we have a problem here and will try to fix it.

Summary

I'm going to show which countries accept and reject the most recommendations. The point is to boil down a very complicated UN process into two simple visuals.

Details

Possible headline(s): Yay or Nay at the Human Rights Council

Data set(s): Comes from a Swiss NGO called UPR Info

Code repository: https://github.com/maxarvid/data-studio/tree/master/code/03_UPR

Possible problems/fears/questions: Topic requires a lot of explanation, only truly representative of what goes down in Geneva.

Work so far

Here two graphs on the states that have received and given most recommendations on the right to privacy:

Here the top 10 states that reject human rights recommendations in the Council (in %):

And the top 10 states that accept the most recommendations:

(You can probably guess that SuR stands for State under Review)

And the less enthusiastic states again, as a bar chart:

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[kevinlitman-navarro]

• This is an interesting topic! I like that it's extremely focused, and it seems like you will be able to get the answers you're looking for
• I'm not sure how meaningful the reject/accept is, and they way you've set it up my confirmation bias went off immediately. On the chart for the states that reject, I was like oh yeah obviously Israel is giving the HRC the finger, but I'm not sure if that's what you want me to take away from this. Could just be a me problem tho
• I'm interested in seeing you break it down by issue, as you did with right to privacy (USA lol), I think that would be a good way for us to get a better understanding of your topic.
• Can you also bring in the weight of how many recommendations each country has received when looking at the rejection rate? maybe a scatterplot could help here.

[sarahslo]

original idea and i want to see/know more. can you show me all of the issues each country is under review for and divide them by noted or supported?

almost like a slope chart split in two on one side, and then on the other side you can lay out the countries and how they voted.