International Human Rights Recommendations at Home: Introducing the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD)

The legalization of international human rights has led to an explosion in the number of recommendations states receive each year regarding their domestic human rights practices. How do states respond to these recommendations, some of which may ask them to engage in significant domestic human rights reform? In this article, we introduce the Women’s Rights Compliance Database (WRCD), which allows scholars to answer this and a number of related questions. The WRCD provides compliance data on 2,558 recommendations across three institutions: CEDAW, the UPR, and the European Court of Human Rights. This article introduces the conceptual and empirical foundations of the WRCD and provides descriptive statistics of the data. Then, we situate the WRCD within the larger body of compliance data and illustrate how it not only fills a critical gap in the human rights compliance data landscape but also facilitates a robust future research agenda.国际人权法治化进程推动各国每年收到的有关其国内人权实践的建议数量呈爆发式增长。各国应如何回应这些建议？其中部分建议可能要求其推行重大国内人权改革。本文将介绍妇女权利合规数据库（Women’s Rights Compliance Database, WRCD），助力学者解答该问题及一系列相关议题。该数据库收录了来自三大机构的2558条建议的合规数据：《消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约》委员会（CEDAW）、普遍定期审议机制（Universal Periodic Review, UPR）以及欧洲人权法院（European Court of Human Rights）。本文将阐述该数据库的概念基础与实证根基，并呈现其数据的描述性统计结果。随后，本文将该数据库置于更广泛的人权合规数据研究体系中进行定位，并阐明其不仅填补了人权合规数据领域的关键空白，还可为未来富有成效的研究议程提供支撑。