lszoszk/uhri-recommendations

UN Human Rights Recommendations (UHRI+)

A cleaned and normalized dataset of 267,671 country-specific human rights observations and recommendations from three UN mechanisms, covering 2006–2026.

Built on the OHCHR Universal Human Rights Index (UHRI) — the authoritative UN source — with systematic data quality improvements applied on top.

Coverage

Mechanism	Records	Bodies
Universal Periodic Review (UPR)	127,625	1
Treaty Bodies	119,532	12 (CCPR, CAT, CERD, CEDAW, CRC, CESCR, CMW, CRPD, CED, SPT, CRC-OP-AC, CRC-OP-SC)
Special Procedures (SR, IE, WG)	20,514	57

Totals are exact counts over this dataset's body field (127,625 + 119,532 + 20,514 = 267,671) and can be reproduced with collections.Counter(ds["train"]["body"]).

198 state parties covered, including Cook Islands, Niue (non-UN-member states), State of Palestine*, Holy See (UN observer states), and Kosovo* (contested status).

Cleaning pipeline (5 stages)

The canonical pipeline description (with full detail and examples) lives on the dashboard's Methodology page. Summary:

Stage	What it does	Scale
1	Rule-based OCR & HTML repair (no AI): stray tags, mid-word OCR splits (develop- ment → development), whitespace, broken citations	Stages 1–4 together edited ~56,000 records (≈21 % of the dataset)
2	LLM-assisted residue review for hard OCR corruption (bounded prompt, structural validation)	412 records (0.15 %)
3	Deterministic annotation_type normalisation (multilingual regex classifier, audit-tagged)	2,603 of ~3,294 missing/UUID-coded types re-labelled
4	Country backfill from the UN document symbol (CEDAW/C/ALB/CO/4 → Albania)	106 records
5	Artefact drop — rows with no citable content (empty placeholders, duplicate annotation IDs, HTML-only scaffolding)	11 rows (267,682 → 267,671)

text_cleaned reflects Stages 1–2 (text repair); Stages 3–5 act on metadata and row selection. text_original preserves the raw OHCHR export text.

Applied data fixes (included in this parquet): body-name normalisation merged duplicate issuing-body spellings (six treaty bodies and several Special-Procedure mandates appeared under both short codes and long names upstream) and resolved 20 blank body values from their document symbols — 1,481 rows changed, 78 → 70 distinct bodies. The same fixes are folded into the live dashboard's data pipeline.

Schema

Field	Type	Description
annotation_id	string	OHCHR UUID
symbol	string	UN document symbol (e.g. CEDAW/C/ALB/CO/4)
body	string	Issuing body short code (e.g. CEDAW, UPR, SR Torture)
publication_date	string	ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD)
publication_year	int	Year for fast filtering
annotation_type	string	Recommendations or Concerns/Observations
countries	list[str]	Target countries (full names)
regions	list[str]	UN M49 regions
affected_persons	list[str]	OHCHR affected-person categories
themes	list[str]	OHCHR thematic categories
sdgs	list[str]	SDG tags
text_original	string	Raw OHCHR export text
text_cleaned	string	Text after 5-stage cleaning pipeline
citation	string	Formatted citation

Quick start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("lszoszk/uhri-recommendations")

# Filter by country
poland = ds["train"].filter(lambda x: "Poland" in x["countries"])

# Filter by mechanism
upr = ds["train"].filter(lambda x: x["body"] == "UPR")

# Search recommendations
torture = ds["train"].filter(lambda x: "torture" in x["text_cleaned"].lower())

Live dashboard

An interactive search and analytics dashboard built on this dataset: https://lszoszk.github.io/UnitedNations_recommendations/

Features: boolean + wildcard + FTS5 stemmed search, per-country profiles, hex map, timeline analytics, SDG mapping.

Citation

@dataset{szoszkiewicz2026uhri,
  author    = {Szoszkiewicz, Lukasz},
  title     = {UN Human Rights Recommendations (UHRI+)},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/lszoszk/uhri-recommendations},
  note      = {Cleaned dataset built on OHCHR Universal Human Rights Index, 2006--2026}
}

Licence

Source data © OHCHR — shared freely and without restriction per the UHRI data policy.

⚠️ The OHCHR data policy may change. Always consult the current terms at uhri.ohchr.org/en/our-data-api before redistributing. This dataset card reflects the policy as of 2026-05-18.

Cleaning pipeline, normalisation, Stage 4 country backfill, and all metadata additions © L. Szoszkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), released under CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for research and education, commercial use requires permission.

Card changelog

• 2026-06-11 — corrected the mechanism totals (Treaty Bodies 119,532; Special Procedures 20,514 — previously listed as rough estimates that were each ~16k off) and replaced the pipeline summary with the canonical five-stage description matching the published methodology.
• 2026-05-18 — initial release.