The ICCPR Follow-up World Maps provide a comprehensive and accessible way to evaluate and compare how countries implement the UN Human Rights Committee's recommendations. Countries are graded from A, representing the highest level of cooperation, to E, indicating the lowest. The maps visually represent this data, with green indicating countries with strong performance and red highlighting those that have received lower grades.
Focusing on the latest assessments, the tool excludes outdated data and highlights countries that lack evaluations due to pending reports or deadlines. By simplifying complex information, the maps empower civil society, researchers, and policymakers to monitor progress, identify gaps, and advocate for stronger national actions to uphold human rights commitments.
Map 1 highlights which States submit follow-up information, identifies unresponsive ones, and notes those with no assessments. Map 2 focuses on States that submit information on time, detailing specific recommendations, grades, and assessment years. Map 3 ranks States by their performance in implementing recommendations, with higher grades indicating better compliance and lower ranks showing weaker efforts.
The CCPR Centre oversees the development and maintenance of the database, which is updated with the follow-up reports of the UN Human Rights Committee.
The World Maps find their main users predominantly in human rights defenders, lawyers, and academics.