I referenced the human trafficking statistics project in my previous post. There are several other data sets accessible online that may also be of interest:
The CIRI Human Rights Dataset "contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 13 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2004." The FAQ notes that the focus is on "government" human rights practices particularly, and not on those of non-state actors. Free registration is required.
The EM-DAT Disaster Database "contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 12,800 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present." A separate but related database houses data on the human impact of complex emergencies.
The Minorities at Risk Project "maintains data on 284 politically active ethnic groups." The project provides qualitative risk assessments for each group, as well as access to data from 1945 to the present.
If you have conducted a survey yourself and wish to preserve the resulting data and/or make it available to other researchers, you may be able to deposit the data with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Science Research (ICPSR). For example, this file from a refugee-related study was deposited in ICPSR's "publications-related archive," which allows other "researcher(s) to replicate a corresponding published article, book, or dissertation [and]...contribute to the building of synthetic cohorts, time series, or meta-analysis datasets."
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