Statistical Databases

A list of international organisations that have programmes and related statistical databases. List compiled by Nicolas Fasel, OHCHR.

International organisations and programmes and related statistical databases Targeted groups / human rights concerned
Women (CEDAW)
Children (CRC)
Older persons
Refugees
Right to life, personal integrity, liberty and security of person, rights in the administration of justice
Right to take part in public affairs, to vote and right to be elected
Right to a name, a nationality and to be registered
Right to and in work, right to trade unions Right to social security
Right to education; right to take part in cultural life; rights to the benefits of science and intellectual property.
Right to health
Persons with HIV/AIDS
Right to food
Right to housing

Additional international organisations / databases

Organisations Databases
United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)/DESA
World Bank (WB)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Statistics in Human Development Report
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) Home page
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (not in English) Statistical information
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Statistical information
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) African Centre for Statistics

1 Database with general qualitative information (provided by Member States) on “Parliamentary Human Rights Bodies”: http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/Instanceadvanced.asp