Religious Human Rights NGOs
DOI
10.17605/OSF.IO/J8PBMCitation
Bush, E., Fan, Y., & Viola, D. (2021, September 6). Religious Human Rights NGOs.Summary
This dataset examines religious non-governmental organizations that focus on human rights. The dataset contains information about each organization's founding, organizational structure, online presence, geographical focuses, human rights emphases, religious identity, and U.N. consultative status.Data File
Cases: 640Variables: 44
Weight Variable: None
Data Collection
2011Original Survey (Instrument)
Religious Human Rights NGOsFunded By
The John Templeton FoundationCollection Procedures
Most of the information about the organizations was coded from each organization's website rather than from the Human Rights Internet. For those cases that did not have websites, information was coded from organizational profiles within the HRI directory, which contain brief descriptions of each organizations' mission, activities, etc.Sampling Procedures
The cases in this dataset are human rights organizations and programs that were initially identified using the "organizations database" by the Human Rights Internet (HRI). It contains only those organizations that were among those classified by HRI as "religious oriented" (n=826).Principal Investigators
Evelyn Bush, Associate Professor of Sociology (at Rose Hill), Fordham UniversityGraduate Assistants:
YuYu Fan
Dominique Viola