Global Rights Index Monitoring
Understand the situation.
Trace the evidence.¶
How rights are documented, how public decisions work, and what the evidence reveals. Explore the studies, country assessments and tools behind GRIMdata.
Human-rights research through computational exploration and legal analysis.
Research you can examine¶
From searching UPR documents to examining digital rights across 194 countries.
- 2022 · Published SGBV-UPR study. Computational document analysis and legal interpretation of sexual and gender-based violence and related rights concerns in SADC UPR records. Read the study · Questions and methods
- 2025 · LittleRainbowRights research. Child and LGBTQ+ rights in relation to advanced digital technologies, presented at the Second International Conference on Children's Rights. Conference contribution · Project contributions
- Available tools · Source-linked exploration. Inspect country assessments, compare indicators, download the published scorecard snapshot and examine source-transparency signals. Open the tools
Four research tracks¶
Established investigations and planned directions ask how documentary evidence can make conditions and decisions easier to understand.
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01 / Published research · Planned renewal
SGBV–UPR¶
A legal and computational inquiry into SGBV and related rights concerns in SADC UPR records. Planned renewal: complete original Cycle 3 coverage and extend Cycle 4 analysis across all UPR countries.
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02 / Research & available tools
LittleRainbowRights¶
Child and LGBTQ+ digital rights research spanning countries and document sources, with an index for examining dated, source-linked assessments.
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03 / Planned · Canada first
Canadian Projects & Environmental Oversight¶
Build Canada and other major projects: source-linked project histories, environmental oversight, Indigenous rights, climate and affordability claims.
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04 / Proposed research
Research Provenance & Institutional Continuity¶
How contributions, methods and knowledge persist through institutional transitions and research handoffs. A proposed research direction.
Follow the evidence¶
LittleRainbowRights.com introduces the project's big ideas. Here, examine assessments and original sources, understand the methods, and use the public tools and instructions.
Explore data & tools Understand the methods Download the scorecard
From UPR documents to a wider research programme¶
The inquiry began in 2019 with a question: how could human-rights documents become easier to search and understand? Computational exploration began in 2020, followed by a conference presentation in 2021 and a law-journal article in 2022.
LittleRainbowRights extended the approach across countries and document sources. The index grew from a need to retain an account of conditions as sources and policies change. That experience now informs the planned return to SGBV-UPR and the programme's new directions.
Understanding conditions carries responsibilities¶
Knowing more can help people act, but it can also expose those described. GRIMdata examines institutional decisions and research claims while considering whose information is organized, who can use it and where disclosure should stop. Each assessment brings together selected indicators, their sources and the gaps in the available evidence.
Read the research context · Data governance
Country assessments pair scores with sources and written reasoning. Public browsing and filtering need no account; external interactive charts load when you choose them.
Find the right kind of documentation¶
Diátaxis provides four entrances for learning, completing a task, looking something up and understanding the reasoning.
Find the technical overview and software citation, or read about GRIMdata.