Human Rights Summer Fellowship

Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan survey research network that has been conducting public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy, and society since 1999. On a two- to three-year cycle, national partners in about 35 African countries carry out face-to-face interviews with nationally representative samples, then analyse the data and disseminate the findings.

Human Rights Watch is an international research and advocacy organization. Guided by international human rights and humanitarian law and respect for the dignity of each human being, they publish reports about the status of human rights in countries around the world .

Freedom House works to defend human rights and promote democratic change, with a focus on political rights and civil liberties. Their Freedom in the World Reports include an overview of specific rights and liberties on a country-by-country basis.

Explore the main democracy measures, indicators of specific characteristics, and global and regional overviews by country from 8 different sources of measuring indicators of democracy.