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The Law Of Indicators On Women’S Human Rights: Unmet Promises And Global Challenges, Marta Infantino
The Law Of Indicators On Women’S Human Rights: Unmet Promises And Global Challenges, Marta Infantino
Marta Infantino
Global indicators on human rights (HRs) aim to measure HRs scores against HRs standards. In other words, they aim to measure legal phenomena against legal benchmarks.
Despite HRs indicators’ reliance on legal knowledge, lawyers have so far neither made substantial contributions to their production, nor studied in depth the legal implications of their uses. The current state-of-the-art in the world of HRs indicators is the result of an ongoing process led by bureaucrats, economists, statisticians, and activists with limited legal training. It is these actors who are developing a new body of professional knowledge, and a new technology of governance …