The 2022 Update of the International SERF Index is now available. This year’s update includes sex disaggregated data on food security. As a result, this year’s update includes sex disaggregated data on the right to education, right to food, and two aspects of the right to health for both the low- and middle- income assessment standard and the high income assessment standard. You can find an overview of the 2022 Update HERE and download the 2022 Update data HERE.
Author: Alyssa Webb
Visualize the 2022 Update SERF Index Data Using Rightstracker.org
The SERF Index Project continues to partner with the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI). HRMI has adopted the SERF Index as its “income adjusted” quality of life metrics. HRMI’s data visualisation tool, rightstracker.org, now has been updated to include data from the 2022 SERF Index Update. This tool allows you to view graphs of country performance overall, by right, by sex, and overtime as well as to compare country performance. Just select “Income adjusted” under “Which performance benchmark?” from the Switch view icon.
SERF Index Now part of the Universal Rights Group’s Data Portal
The Universal Rights Group is an independent think tank located in Geneva that is focused on “analyzing and strengthening global human rights policy”. Among other things, “it provides a forum for discussion and debate” on human rights issues that seeks to bridge the gap between the international human rights system on the one hand and policy-makers and other stakeholders on the other. The International SERF Index is now included as one of the key indicators in their new “State of the World: Human Rights and Democracy” data portal tracking human rights performance across the globe.
2021 Update International SERF Index Now Available
The 2021 update of the International SERF Index is now available! This year’s update re-estimated all of the achievement possibility frontiers used to benchmark State obligations using the new round of the International Comparison Project providing per capita income data measured in 2017 PPP$. This year’s update continues to include sex disaggregation of many scores on many right aspects and the excess income metric scores introduced last year. You can find an overview of the 2021 Update HERE and download the 2021 Update data HERE.
2019 SERF Index Update is Now Available
Announcing New Partnership
The Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative has joined forces with the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, HRMI. HRMI has adopted the SERF Index and underlying metrics as its economic and social rights scores for their “income-adjusted” quality of life metrics. HRMI proides extensive data visualization tools showing country performance over time and comparing country performance at a given time. Explore HRMI’s data HERE.
Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights
The SERF team’s book, Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (Oxford University Press) has received the book of the year award from the American Political Science Associations Human Rights Section.
Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights
The SERF team’s book, Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (Oxford University Press) has been nominated for the 2017 Grawemeyer Award.
Food Security in South Africa: Human Rights and Entitlements Perspectives
Food Security in South Africa: Human Rights and Entitlements Perspectives (Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Viviene Taylor eds.) has just been published by Capetown University press (Capetown University Press, 2016).
Achievement Possibilities Frontier
A proposal for resolving a conflict between setting universal goals and country specific benchmarks for post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Susan Randolph propose a methodology for setting nationally specific benchmarks taking account of levels of development using the Achievement Possibilities Frontier: Achievements Possibilities Frontier