amnestydata | Amnesty International Torture data

amnestydata is a Java library. amnestydata has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However amnestydata build file is not available. You can download it from GitHub.

amnesty international torture data. a couple of parsers were written for the annual amnesty international state of human rights reports. the challenge, described at this link, was to extract violations of torture and build a database. the parsers were able to extract the sections on torture in varying degrees of success, but more testing needs to be done. a further requirement would have been to identify or produce a few fields that would have statistical value, such as frequency of abuses, type of abuses, and the agencies involved. this was attempted by one of the team members but progress was not made within the timeframe of the hackathon. at this point, the state of the parser code is that it needs to be run for all the years requested and the results checked and debugged. at the conclusion of this step then data would be available that would consist of the "torture and other ill-treatment" sections for each country reported for all the years available (1961-2013). these records could be easily put into a database with three simple fields, country, date,