Isabella-Ade/QTM302W-AfricaHumanRights

An exploratory look into human rights indictors in African countries. Particularly, observing what may cause differences in human rights scores in continental and island African countries. # Human Rights in Continental vs. Island African Nations This project is a final assignment for QTM302W: Technical Writing at Emory University. #### -- Project Status: Completed ## Project Intro/Objective This purpose of this project is the examination of how human rights protections differ between mainland African nations and African island nations and the exploration of variable predictors within island nations. It serves this field of human rights and democracy studies to uncover whether geographic, cultural, or religious factors may affect these scores, and whether there might be better groupings than geography to study human rights on the African continent. This research enters the conversation in regional human rights by examining the distinct performance of African island nations, a rarely explored subset that challenges prevailing geographic assumptions. An understanding of how island nations in Africa defy the common trend can be an insight into democracy and human rights applied to other continental regions, expanding the research and cultural knowledge on how countries achieve and maintain human rights for their citizens. ### Methods Used * Descriptive Analysis * Data Visualization * Regression Analysis * Predictive Modeling ### Technologies * R ## Project Description * Data: - The human rights data draws from the Cingranelli–Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset (Version 2014.04.14), which includes annual data for 202 countries from 1994–2014. The dataset measures state respect for human rights based on analyses of the U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and Amnesty International documentation. While this dataset includes various indicators, this project focuses on the indicators physical integrity index (PHYSINT), women's economic rights (WECON), and women's poitical rights (WOPOPL). - The area, population, and GDP data come from Africapolis which is a database created in the collabortion of the Sahel and West Africa C …