See BETH SIMMONS, MOBILIZING FOR RIGHTS: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN DOMESTIC POLITICS 125-55 (2009), Eric Neumayer, Do International Human Rights Treaties Improve Respect for Human Rights?, 49 J. CONFLICT RES. 925, 950 and also David S. Law & Mila Versteeg, Sham Constitutions, 101 CALIF. L. REV. 863, 897-912 (2013).

I'd like to suggest you W. S. Heinz, H. Frühling, Determinants of Gross Human Rights Violations by State and State-sponsored Actors in Brazil. Uruguay, Chile and Argentina 1960-1990, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1999. This is about gross human rights violations that characterized the military repression in  four mentioned South American states from the 1960s to the 1980s. I hope it could be useful if you are interesting in regional systems of human rights protection.

Some interesting general comments also on human rights violations in the field of psychological researches you can find in the "Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology" 2015  Volume 21, Issue 1 (Feb), Special Issue: Psychology and Human Rights.

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 Thank you so much Przemy but I need to cover atleast 50 countries globally.

Magdalene, please find "Violations of Human Rights in the Russian Military" by Cathy Smith, as a source with interesting literature - http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/researchdigest/russia/military.pdf

Another interesting article with general comments on your topic - W. H. Moore, R. M. Welch, "Why Do Governments Abuse Human Rights?" can be found here - https://www.academia.edu/5737925/Why_Do_Governments_Abuse_Human_Rights

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I think you might start at ground zero, with the UN's 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Prior to the Declaration, only the Geneva Conventions dealt with human rights, and only in the event of war. Prior to that, human rights were ethical and philosophical concerns that defined the 'rightness' of societal ends and means. Interesting subject. Good luck.

Dear Magdalene

Interesting and challenging topic of research. You can include International Conventions too. 

See links given below.

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Vibha

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/ListofIssues.aspx

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CHR/Pages/CommissionOnHumanRights.aspx

Another link that may give you country wise data/indicators. I found important data on many issues here while studying about child related issues and rights.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Due to the frequent security disturbances in my country, many human rights violations happen with the extremists and the growing migration of citizens from areas of conflict, many violations have occurred by extremists in the ugliest ways and this leads to torn society and lack of attention to the value of childhood and other human rights.

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Attached is an article that is related to the thread with entitled: "Structural determinants of human rights prosecutions after democratic transition", Hun Joon Kim, 

Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Journal of Peace Research, 49(2) 305–320.

Please, see the attached file for details....

I'm truly grateful to everyone of you. Your tips were quite helpful and more academic excellence to you all... Thank you, Meg.

The rule of law, government effectiveness and respect for all human beings.

These were part of the indicators I selected. Thank you Mr Moos.

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"Human Rights Violations

What it Means to Violate Human Rights

There is now near-universal consensus that all individuals are entitled to certain basic rights under any circumstances. These include certain civil liberties and political rights, the most fundamental of which is the right to life and physical safety. Human rights are the articulation of the need for justice, tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity in all of our activity.[1] Speaking of rights allows us to express the idea that all individuals are part of the scope of morality and justice.

To protect human rights is to ensure that people receive some degree of decent, humane treatment. To violate the most basic human rights, on the other hand, is to deny individuals their fundamental moral entitlements. It is, in a sense, to treat them as if they are less than human and undeserving of respect and dignity. Examples are acts typically deemed "crimes against humanity," including genocide, torture, slavery, rape, enforced sterilization or medical experimentation, and deliberate starvation. Because these policies are sometimes implemented by governments, limiting the unrestrained power of the state is an important part of international law. Underlying laws that prohibit the various "crimes against humanity" is the principle of nondiscrimination and the notion that certain basic rights apply universally.[2]"....

Please, goto the website to read the rest of the article.....

http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/human-rights-violations

Thank you so much for your kind contribution Mr. Hazim.

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Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

                                                                                ----  Jon Corzine