URGENT ACTIONS VISUALISED
Explore the results of our first Amnesty Decoders project.
The report
Below you can interact with some of the results
our Decoders have helped us analyse.
THE FINDINGS WILL HELP US TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE AT SUPPORTING PEOPLE WHO FACE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE FUTURE.
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In just under 2 months, 8000 digital volunteers from more than 150 countries spent over 100 hours to help us decode and verify 2443 urgent actions and identify trends emerging from our massive archive of data.
What does the decoded data tell us about the outcomes of Amnesty’s actions around the world?
Amnesty Urgent Actions have increasingly taken place over the past 36 years in 160 countries.
The map below shows their distribution in the world and the related outcome along this time span.
Which human rights violations and which regions were associated with positive outcomes?
Urgent Actions are related to a wide range of human rights violations.
The following visualization shows their distribution within world regions and according to their outcomes.
Region countries
Zambia, South Africa, Somalia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Swaziland, Mauritania, Togo, Djibouti, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Malawi, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Uganda, Niger, Gambia, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Gabon, Eritrea, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya
Region countries
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Singapore, India, Bhutan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, North Korea, Maldives, Nepal, Taiwan, Japan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
Region countries
Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Viet Nam
Region countries
Turkey, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Tajikistan, France, Greece, Albania, Russian Federation, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Germany, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Slovakia, Denmark, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Malta, Eurasia, Portugal, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Norway, Armenia, Moldova, Slovenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Spain, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Montenegro, Macedonia
Region countries
Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Kuwait, Yemen, Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories, Palestinian Authority, Middle East, Iraq, Oman, Qatar
Region countries
United States of America, Canada
Region countries
El Salvador, Honduras, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Belize, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Bahamas, Panama, Bermuda, Barbados, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Nicaragua
Region countries
Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Suriname
What were the profiles of people associated with positive outcomes?
A greater amount of positive outcomes for the majority of violations are detectable in the decoded actions database.
CREDITS
THE COLLABORATION
The following research and designs were undertaken as a collaboration between the Digital Methods Initiative, Density Design and Amnesty International at the Digital Methods Summer School 2016.
THE TEAM
The research team included: Jonathan Gray (facilitator), Olga Boichak, Agata Brillhi, Claudia Minchilli, Coral Negrón, Mariasilvia Poltronieri, Matteo Azzi from Calibro, Chiara Riente, Gülüm Şener and Paola Verhaert. Thanks also to Liliana Bounegru and Richard Rogers.
