Human rights and rule of law index, 0 (high) - 10 (low), 2022: The average for 2022 based on 177 countries was 5.37 index points. The highest value was in Yemen: 9.9 index points and the lowest value was in Finland: 0.3 index points. The indicator is available from 2007 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.
Contact the UDHR Team. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and this section of OHCHR's website, please contact: ( OHCHR-hredatabase@un.org) or write to: Methodology, Education and Training Unit. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais des Nations. 1211 Geneva 10. Switzerland. Middle East. Several Middle Eastern and North African countries are signatories on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). However, there is no established international, government-operated human rights article or council for the region Such reactions continue to feed doubts "about the moral authority of the United States to rate other countries’ human rights records," writes Marc Weisbrot of the Washington-based Center forCharts. The score captures the extent to which citizens are protected from government killings, torture, political imprisonments, extrajudicial executions, mass killings and disappearances. Large positive scores mean abuses are rare relative to other countries and years, large negative scores that abuses are relatively widespread.
Since 2006, the Council has convened 26 special sessions devoted to urgent cases of human rights, which one-third of the Council’s members can call at any time. These include two recent sessions
human rights record by country
