Data project ranks how well countries around the globe protect human rights
In the first global Human Rights Report Card issued by the CIRIGHTS Data Project, Canada and Sweden were at the head of the class with a 96, followed by New Zealand, Norway and Portugal at 94. At the bottom were Iraq with a score of 12, China at 10, and North Korea and Syria with 6. Iran was marked by a shocking lack of human rights, scoring only 2 out of a possible total of 100.