"A human rights statistician finds truth in numbers"

This is an interesting article by Jina Moore in The Christian Science Monitor (February 7, 2008) on Patrick Ball, the man credited with bringing the power of quantitative analysis to human rights prosecution. My hat is off to this guy who is willing to apply difficult but necessary analytic techniques to human rights cases. There can be few professions harder on ones morale, and few with greater social value in todays world.

We are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The United Nations has proclaimed a year long commemoration, from last December 10th to December 10th, 2008. Someone should honor Patrick Ball as part of the effort.