# Are there organizations that have a rating system for every countries human rights

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**Created:** [April 6, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-organizations-that-have-a-rating-system-for-every-countries-human-rights/166908 "2003-04-06T19:49:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Calculus\_of\_Logic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@The\_Calculus\_of\_Logic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Calculus_of_Logic)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-organizations-that-have-a-rating-system-for-every-countries-human-rights/166908/1 "2003-04-06T19:49:47Z")

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[Freedom house](http://www.freedomhouse.org/ratings/index.htm) has a scale for how many political & civil liberties each specific country has on a rate of 1-7. Is there an organization that publishes a respected rating system for human rights (torture, forced starvation, execution, slave labor, etc) on a country by country basis?

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**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-organizations-that-have-a-rating-system-for-every-countries-human-rights/166908/2 "2003-04-06T20:26:01Z")

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[http://www.amnesty.org/](http://www.amnesty.org/) has lots of information on this subject; the [http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/home/home?OpenDocument](http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2002.nsf/home/home?OpenDocument) gives this type of info on a regional and country basis, but it is not in a nice list.

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**Author:** ![The\_Calculus\_of\_Logic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@The\_Calculus\_of\_Logic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Calculus_of_Logic)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-organizations-that-have-a-rating-system-for-every-countries-human-rights/166908/3 "2003-04-07T21:06:16Z")

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i need a rating system though. Something with a scale system.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-organizations-that-have-a-rating-system-for-every-countries-human-rights/166908/4 "2003-04-07T21:29:45Z")

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[I found the site of Human Rights Watch](http://www.hrw.org/), but a cursory browse didn’t reveal any scale to me.