Human Rights Data Analysis Group

{{Short description|US non-profit organization}}

{{Infobox organization

| name = Human Rights Data Analysis Group

| logo = Hrdag-logo-2021.png

| type = Non-profit

| founded_date = 1991

| tax_id =

| founder = Patrick Ball

| location = San Francisco, California

| origins = AAAS Science and Human Rights Program

| key_people = Patrick Ball, Megan Price

| area_served = Global

| product = Data analysis in the field of human rights

| focus =

| method = Assisting human rights projects by conducting rigorous scientific and statistical analysis of large-scale human rights abuses

| revenue =

| endowment =

| owner = Human Rights Data Analysis Group

| dissolved =

| website = {{URL|https://hrdag.org}}

| footnotes =

}}

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world. It was founded in 1991 by Patrick Ball. The organization has published findings on conflicts in Syria,{{cite book

|last = Price

|first = Megan

|author2 = Jeff Klingner

|author3 = Patrick Ball

|title = Preliminary Statistical Analysis of Documentation of Killings in the Syrian Arab Republic

|publisher = The Benetech Human Rights Program, commissioned by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

|date = 2013

|url = https://hrdag.org/publications/2013/Benetech-final-SY-report.pdf

}}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Colombia,{{cite book

|last = Guzmán

|first = Daniel

|author2 = Tamy Guberek

|author3 = Megan Price

|title = Unobserved Union Violence: Statistical Estimates of the Total Number of Trade Unionists Killed in Colombia,1999-2008

|publisher = The Benetech Human Rights Program

|date = 2012

|url = https://hrdag.org/publications/2012/uv-estimates-paper_2012-11.pdf

}}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Chad,{{cite book

|last = Silva

|first = Romesh

|author2 = Jeff Klingner

|author3 = Scott Weikart

|title = State Coordinated Violence in Chad under Hissène Habré: A Statistical Analysis of Reported Prison Mortality in Chad's DDS Prisons and Command Responsibility of Hissène Habré, 1982-1990

|publisher = The Benetech Human Rights Program, for Human Rights Watch and the Chadian Association of Victims of Political Repression and Crimes

|date = 2010

|url = https://hrdag.org/publications/2010/State-Violence-in-Chad.pdf

}}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Kosovo,{{cite book

| last = Ball

| first = Patrick

| authorlink = Patrick Ball

| title = Policy or Panic? The Flight of Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, March-May 1999

| publisher = American Association for the Advancement of Science

| date = 1999

| url = http://shr.aaas.org/kosovo/policyorpanic/}}

Guatemala,{{cite journal

| doi = 10.1177/0022002702046003005

| last = Davenport

| first = Christian

|author2=Patrick Ball

| title = Views to a Kill: Exploring the Implications of Source Selection in the Case of Guatemalan State Terror, 1977-1996

| journal = Journal of Conflict Resolution

| volume = 46

| issue = 3

| pages = 427–450

| date = 2002}}

Peru,

East Timor,{{Cite news

| last = Harrison

| first = Ann

| title = Coders Bare Invasion Death Count

| newspaper = Wired Magazine

| date = 2006-02-09

| url = https://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/02/70196?currentPage=all

| accessdate = 2009-12-08

}}

India, Liberia, Bangladesh, and Sierra Leone. The organization provided testimony in the war crimes trials of Slobodan Milošević and Milan Milutinović at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and in Guatemala's Supreme Court in the trial of General José Efraín Ríos Montt, the de facto president of Guatemala in 1982–1983. Gen. Ríos was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.{{Cite news

| last = Malkin

| first = Elisabeth

| title = Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group

| newspaper = The New York Times

| date = 2013-05-10

| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/world/americas/gen-efrain-rios-montt-of-guatemala-guilty-of-genocide.html

| accessdate = 2013-05-15

}}

Most recently, the organization has published on police violence in the United States.{{cite journal

| last = Ball

| first = Patrick

| title = Violence in Blue

| journal = Granta

| volume = 134

| issue = 4 March 2016

| date = 2016}}