[Project] Nation states curtailing of your rights

[maxarvid]

Pitch

Summary

More international law! One source of international law comes from multilateral treaties. One such treaty is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which at this point in history should be considered as Customary International Law. It is widely signed and ratified, and protects your rights to freedom of expression, privacy, association, and the like.

The ICCPR has one interesting feature: State parties are required to report to the UN's Office of Legal Affairs when they decide to derogate from the treaty due to a state of emergency. The UN makes these available online. I want to illustrate which countries has notified the UN the most. NB: This doesn't imply that they've obeyed human rights law more or less than other countries. It is really only a measure of who has reported to the UN.

Details

Possible headline(s): Who limits your rights?

Data set(s): https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-4&chapter=4&clang=_en

Code repository: https://github.com/maxarvid/data-studio/tree/master/code/06_emergencies

Possible problems/fears/questions: I'm having a rough time cleaning the text of the communications, some communications from the state parties are notifications that the state of emergency has been lifted. I'll have to think of some clever way to regex that into a binary.

Work so far

Scraping done, cleaning commenced.

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