Africa: Governance Rankings Will Promote Human Rights in Africa

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With the publication of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance this week, we see yet again the challenges we face in trying to gain an accurate picture of governance across the continent. In the areas of political participation and human rights, for instance, it is much easier to assess and measure political participation than human rights. And this measurement is critically important to improving the lives of people across Africa.

This difficulty in assessing the situation on the ground is rooted in part in the way the international human rights system has developed over the past 60 years. The numbers of institutions, organisations and bodies that aim to protect and promote human rights have not as yet been able to create a system that measures outcomes in 53 African countries. And we strongly believe it is these outcomes that matter.

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