Human Rights and Public Opinion: From Attitudes to Action

Attitudes and Action: Public Opinion and the Occurrence of Terrorism

The predictors of terrorism are unclear. This paper examines the effect of public opinion in one country toward another country on the number of terrorist attacks perpetrated by people or groups from the former country against targets in the latter country. Public opinion is measured by the percentage of people in Middle Eastern and North African countries who disapprove of the leadership of ni...

Coronavirus Pandemic; From Human Rights Considerations to Citizenship Requirements

Coronavirus pandemic as a global health challenge, has had many political, economic, legal, social and cultural consequences in the realm of national societies and internationally. The most important concerns in the legal field are the human rights situation in the international system and civil rights in the field of national systems. These concerns are mainly related to the restriction of the...

Gay Rights in the States: Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness

We study the effects of policy-specific public opinion on state adoption of policies affecting gays and lesbians, and the factors that condition this relationship. Using national surveys and advances in opinion estimation, we create new estimates of state-level support for eight policies, including civil unions and nondiscrimination laws. We differentiate between responsiveness to opinion and c...

Public Libraries and Human Rights

Incorporating gender, equity, and human rights into the action planning process: moving from rhetoric to action

BACKGROUND Mainstreaming of gender, equity, and human rights (GER) is an important focus of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other UN organizations. This paper explores the role of action plans in mainstreaming GER. This paper is informed by a theory-driven evaluation lens. DESIGN A theory of change framework explored the following seven dimensions of how action plans can implement mai...