Carlie Chisolm, Malcolm Ginn & Joseph Holzman In this post, we examine the ratification status of the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (CSTPEP). The instrument was adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on December 2, […]
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Sanne Bloemendaal, Tumelo Modise & Casey Richardson While this convention is not one of the core UN human rights instruments, it is an important element of the human rights regime promoting and protecting women’s rights. The convention has three essential goals. First, echoing Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of […]
Shreya Aher, Dylan Torres & Paula Milanez Zafalon In this post, we assess the ratification status of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. It was adopted on December 20, 1988, by an international conference primarily made up of United Nations (UN) member states […]
Noah Chang, Natalia Jamiolkowski & Liv Martin In this post, we explore the ratification status of the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space. This treaty was drafted by the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) and adopted by the United Nations (UN) General […]
Arianah Bell, Chekwube Okunowo & Maxwell Patterson In this post, we analyze the ratification status of the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention. This treaty was adopted by the “Diplomatic Conference on an International Total Ban on Anti-Personnel Land Mines at Oslo on September 18, 1997” and it entered into force on March […]
Lia Collado, Omar Majumdar & Júlia Oliveira Souza In this post, we assess the ratification status of the Convention on the International Right of Correction. This treaty was adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on December 16, 1952, and entered into force on August 24, 1962, after 7 […]
Many undergraduate students are looking for opportunities to strengthen their CVs or graduate school applications. Publishing their research in an academic journal or other similar platforms could help these students stand out. In this post, I share a few tips undergraduate students should consider before submitting their work to a […]
In Part 1 of this tutorial, we learned how to use ggplot2’s geom_polygon function to create a map illustrating the ratification status of the 1966 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). In Part 2 of this tutorial, I will explain how to use the […]
Working with geographical data is not easy. But learning how to create choropleth maps is an important skill. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create maps in R with the ggplot2 package. The ggplot2 package is informed by Leland Wilkinson’s grammar of graphics. To get familiarized with this […]
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis hosts one of the most expansive depositories of economic data in the United States (US). The Federal Reserve Economic Data, better known as FRED, includes “hundreds of thousands of economic data timeseries from scores of national, international, public and private sources”. There are […]
