UICHR Human Rights Index
#1 — Three Generations of Human Rights
| 14 | Number of children executed under capital punishment in the United States since 1990 |
| 22 | Documented, politically motivated murders in Cambodia during the final two months before the July 1998 National Assembly elections |
| 50 | Estimated percentage of Russian criminal suspects subjected to torture or ill-treatment |
| 60 | Number of journalists under arrest or convicted of various crimes in Turkey in 1997 |
| 100 | Number of lashings given to a teenage mother in Nigeria by an Islamic court for allegedly having sex outside of marriage |
| 185,000 | Number of ethnic Albanians who fled or were expelled from their homes in Kosovo as a result of ethnic conflict during 1999 |
| 40,000,000 | Estimated number of bonded laborers in India during 1999 |
| 30 | Percentage of Americans who face problems accessing health care due to cost |
| 200-300 | Number of children dying of malaria every hour |
| 300,000 | Number of children under the age of 18 currently participating in armed conflicts in more than 30 countries |
| 500,000 | Number of women who die during childbirth and unsafe abortions each year |
| 784,000 | Number of Colombian children between the ages of 6 and 11 who work |
| 1,700,000 | Number of civilians who have died through deprivation of water, food, and health care, and through combat-related casualties in the war between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda since 1998 |
| 3,000,000 | Number of people in southern Sudan facing serious food shortages due to ongoing civil conflict and drought |
| 11 | Percentage of Honduran population constituting indigenous peoples, with little or no ability to participate in decisions affecting their lands, cultures, traditions, and the allocation of natural resources |
| 40 | Number of years the Moronene people have struggled to secure their claim to ancestral lands in southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia |
| 84 | Percentage of Palestinians (700,000 to 800,000 people) exiled from their homelands following the Israel-Arab War of 1948 and the establishment of the State of Israel |
| 404 | Number of recorded cases of illegal ocean dumping of wastes in Japanese waters in 1998 |
| 5,000,000-7,000,000 | Estimated number of landmines in Afghanistan restricting areas for cultivation and slowing the return of refugees |
| 3,400,000,000,000 | Total dollars spent by the United States on preparing for nuclear war since the Second World War |
First published in The Iowa Review (Volume 31, Number 2) Fall 2001.
Copyright © 2001 by The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights. For source details, please e-mail The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (uichr@uiowa.edu)