Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights project
www.humanrightsdata.com 
This website offers a large collection of standards-based data on 15 different human rights from 1980 to 2006, updated occasionally.

Kansas Event Data System  
http://web.ku.edu/keds/index.html
Hosted by the Department of Political Science, University of Kansas, this website provides information and resources on event data tackling a wide range of social phenomena.

Freedom House
www.freedomhouse.org 
The website provides information on data and methodology used to produce the two standards-based scales on civil and political rights from 1972. Data updated annually.

Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org
The website provides direct access to human rights country reports and other qualitative sources for the empirical study of human rights.

Human Rights Data Analysis Group
www.hrdag.org 
World leading organization in the production and analysis of event-based data on human rights.

International Political Studies Association
http://ipsaportal.unina.it/
The IPSA web portal provides authoritative guidance to students and scholars worldwide, offering direct access to a large number of electronic resources including data banks, research institutes, thematic networks, and online tutorial organized by issue area.

Maplecroft – Human Rights Risks Reports
www.maplecroft.com
These reports offer innovative mapping and expert analysis to assess up-to-date human rights risk for 196 countries. Reports include up to 28 categories of human rights violations covering human security, labour rights, civil liberties and access to remedy. The website also provides access to aggregated indices summarizing human rights risk and complicity according to severity, prevalence, and levels of impunity.

Political Terror Scale
www.politicalterrorscale.org 
The website provides information on data and methodology used to produce two versions of standards-based scales on personal integrity rights from 1976 to 2006.

United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) MDG monitor
www.mdgmonitor.org
The MDG Monitor shows how countries are progressing in their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The MDG Monitor is designed as a tool for policymakers, development practitioners, journalists, students and others to track progress through interactive maps and country-specific profiles, learn about countries' challenges and achievements and get the latest news, and support organizations working on the MDGs around the world.

US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm
The website provides direct access to US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. It offers an authoritative (qualitative) source for the empirical study of human rights, used by scholars to build standard-based human rights indicators.

World Bank Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals
http://devdata.worldbank.org/atlas-mdg/
The Online Atlas of the MDGs is an innovative visualization of the Millennium Development Goals that complements the World Bank's MDG website. You can explore maps of key indicators for each of the eight MDGs, resize countries to reflect comparative values, zoom in on countries and pull up quick tables of supporting indicators.