Key reports & data.
Authoritative external research from the organisations that document these abuses in depth. Links open the source directly; this Atlas does not host the documents.
Human Rights Watch's flagship annual review of human rights practices in some 100 countries, with a keynote essay and per-country chapters covering the events of the past year.
The standard annual assessment of political rights and civil liberties, scoring every country and territory from 0 to 100 and classifying them as Free, Partly Free, or Not Free.
RSF's annual ranking of 180 countries and territories by the degree of press freedom journalists and media enjoy, combining a quantitative tally of abuses with a qualitative survey of conditions.
CPJ's running census of journalists imprisoned for their work, searchable by country, year, medium, and the charges used against them.
Amnesty International's annual survey documenting the human rights situation across more than 150 countries, alongside its broader library of investigative research reports.
The UN human rights office's catalogue of official reports, fact sheets, and thematic studies, including outputs of Special Rapporteurs and commissions of inquiry.