Individual Mobilization by Victims of Human Rights Abuse: Who Files Petitions in the United Nations?

IF 2.4 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI:10.1093/isq/sqaf043

Rachel J Schoner

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Abstract

Who files petitions against repressive regimes in the United Nations? Victims of human rights abuse face high personal costs of participation, including retaliation from the government against whom they are filing a complaint. There is also a significant information barrier. Despite these costs, several hundred petitions (or complaints) have been filed against repressive governments in just one United Nations treaty body. I frame filing international petitions as a form of antiregime mobilization; if mistreated, political individuals and organizations file petitions as a part of their broader mobilization efforts to improve human rights. This article introduces individual-level data of individuals who file complaints in the United Nations. I find there are two main categories of petitioners: (1) individuals with prior political involvement and (2) individuals represented by civil society organizations. This dataset includes identities of individuals, involvement of legal representation, specific rights under contestation, and other identifying individual characteristics. These data on individuals who overcome high costs help improve our understanding of broader processes of mobilization, both domestic and international.

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侵犯人权受害者的个人动员：谁在联合国提出请愿？

谁在联合国向专制政权请愿？还有一个重要的信息障碍。尽管付出了这些代价，但仅在一个联合国条约机构就有数百份针对专制政府的请愿书（或投诉）被提交。我认为提交国际请愿是一种反政府动员；如果受到虐待，政治个人和组织会提出请愿，作为其更广泛的动员努力的一部分，以改善人权。本文介绍了在联合国提出申诉的个人的个人数据。我发现上访者主要有两类：(1)先前有政治参与的个人；(2)民间社会组织代表的个人。该数据集包括个人身份、法律代表的参与、争议中的具体权利和其他识别个人特征。这些关于克服高昂费用的个人的数据有助于提高我们对更广泛的国内和国际动员过程的理解。

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