WoRLD: The World Legal Rights Data Centre

The World Legal Rights Data Centre (WoRLD) is an unprecedented initiative aimed at significantly improving the level and quality of knowledge, insight and comparative data available to policymakers, NGOs and researchers worldwide on issues of social policy, human rights and social determinants of population health.

Led by Jody Heymann, WoRLD builds on the international database begun by Heymann and the Project on Global Working Families at Harvard. It will be the first truly global compendium of data on social and demographic conditions and public policy - specifically on labour, education, equality, and health and well-being outcomes. It will include data and comparative analysis on 192 countries.

In compiling WoRLD, the IHSP has already begun to gather, analyze and publish data for the following initiatives: The Discrimination and Equity in Constitutions Project, surveying legal rights in 192 United Nations member-states; the Work, Family and Equity Index (WFEI) international labour initiative; the Education Initiative; the Child Labour Initiative and a series of country-specific surveys on work and equity indicators, beginning with Work Equity (WE) Canada, WE India, and WE China.