Mark Gibney is the Belk Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He is a co-director of the Political Terror Scale Human Rights data collection project.Peter Haschke is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Asheville and co-director of the Political Terror Scale project.

• Introduction: Quantitative Human Rights Measures 1. Changing standards or political whim? Evaluating changes in the content of US State Department Human Rights Reports following presidential transitions 2. Path dependence and human rights improvement 3. What bias? Changing standards, information effects, and human rights measurement 4. ‘Who did what for whom?’ Amnesty International’s Urgent Actions as activist-generated data 5. Human rights data for everyone: Introducing the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) 6. Advocacy output: Automated coding documents from human rights organizations 7. How to teach machines to read human rights reports and identify judgments at scale 8. Introducing DyoRep: A database of perpetrator–victim dyads within repressive spells 9. Words count: Discourse and the quantitative analysis of international norms