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NAI Forum Lecture

Posted on August 11, 2011August 8, 2016 by Alyssa Webb

SERF Initiative Co-Director Sakiko Fukuda-Parr examines MDGs and the narrative of development at the Nordic Africa Institute Forum.

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Initiative Featured in the Christian Science Monitor

Posted on June 6, 2011August 8, 2016 by Alyssa Webb

Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative featured in the Christian Science Monitor

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Endorsement from Human Rights Experts

Posted on May 13, 2011August 8, 2016 by Alyssa Webb

Endorsement from human rights experts who spoke at the launch of the Initiative in May.

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Published in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

Posted on February 8, 2011August 8, 2016 by Alyssa Webb

Just Published in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities:
“Special Issue: On Human Rights and Capabilities”

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    The 2026 Update of the international SERF Index is now available and covers a 33-year period, 1990 to 2023.  The data cover five rights—the rights to education, food, health, housing and work—and two assessment standards—one most applicable to low-and middle-income countries and the other most applicable to high-income countries.  Data are available on at least […]
  • 2025 Update International SERF Index Now Available
    The 2025 Update of the International SERF Index is now available and covers a 32-year period, 1990 to 2022.  The data cover five rights—the rights to education, food, health, housing, and work—and two assessment standards—one most applicable to low- and middle-income countries and the other most applicable to high-income countries. Data are available on at […]
  • Visualize the 2025 Update SERF Index Data Using Rightstracker.org
    The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) continues to partner with the SERF Index Project and has adopted the SERF Index as its “income-adjusted” measure of country economic and social rights performance, which it calls its “Quality of Life” metric.  HRMI’s data visualization tool, https://rightstracker.org/  has been updated to include data from the 2025 Update of the International […]
  • 2024 Update International SERF Index Now Available
    The 2024 Update of the International SERF Index is now available and covers a 31 year period, 1990 to 2021.  The data cover five rights—the rights to education, food, health, housing, and work—and two assessment standards—one most applicable to low- and middle-income countries and the other most applicable to high-income countries. Data are available on […]

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The Economic and Social Rights Empowerment Initiative was initiated by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Terra Lawson-Remer at the New School, and Susan Randolph at the University of Connecticut, and its start-up was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant # 1061457.

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