Human Rights Measurement Initiative

Charting Human Rights in a Dramatic New Way

A boy holding a slate of wood with Quranic verses written on it at an Islamic school in Maiduguri, Nigeria, May 24, 2014. A new human-rights measurement initiative offers metrics and tools to track the performance of more than 140 countries, including Nigeria, a country of 181 million that ranks highest in education among its economic and social rights indicators but low in health. JOE PENNEY