Measuring the world indicators, human rights, and global governance

Current Anthropology

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  Merry, Sally Engle ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79953135704     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657241     Document Type: Article

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1. "Indicators to Measure Violence against Women." Expert Group Meeting organized by UN Division for the Advancement of Women, UN Economic Commission for Europe, UN Statistical Division, Geneva, Switzerland, October 8-10, 2007. This document, reporting the discussion of an expert group meeting to develop an indicator for violence against women, describes indicators as follows: "Indicators are part of the knowledge base needed to assist policy and decision-making. They help to raise awareness of an issue. Indicators, with their associated benchmarks, contribute to the monitoring of progress in achieving goals, and in policy evaluation. They enable an evidence-based comparison of trends over time, and within and between countries. Indicators on violence against women may also support the assessment of States' exercise of their due diligence obligation to prevent and address violence against women, and the effectiveness of related policies and other measures" (4).
2. Kaufman and Kraay (2007) emphasize the importance of sharing information on measurement error and the constituent elements of the indicator, but in their review of governance indicators, they note that many indicators do not make this information available.
3. As Mary Poovey (1998) argues, the origins of the idea of themodern scientific fact and its representation by numbers, themselves subject to manipulation according to fixed rules, occurred along with the invention of double-entry bookkeeping as a mode of business management.
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