The Global Institutionalization of Human Rights Discourse: A Cross-national Analysis of the Language used in the International Labour Conference during the Cold War

Figures & data

Figure 1. Temporal invocations of the term ‘human right(s)’ (per 1000 words / two year moving average).

Table 1. Number of human rights invocations in the speeches of delegates representing international organizations per 1000 words. Size of the corpus (number of words) in parentheses.

	Regional AACLAP INGOs	Other INGOs	Regional AACLAP IGOs	Other IGOs
1949-1959	0 (1088)	0,09 (44259)	0 (476)	0 (12197)
1960-1969	0,58 (15430)	0,19 (129707)	0,32 (15687)	0,03 (33097)
1970-1979	0,96 (48916)	0,57 (168827)	0,46 (25902)	0,05 (60088)
1980-1989	0,60 (56303)	0,46 (246348)	0,31 (28648)	0,07 (44033)
Total	0,74 (121737)	0,40 (589141)	0,37 (70713)	0,05 (149415)

Table 2. Top 20 collocates of ‘human right(s)’ in different subcorpora (10-word radius).

The West		The Eastern Bloc		The AACLAP		International organizations
Collocate	Freq.	Collocate	Freq.	Collocate	Freq.	Collocate	Freq.
1. rights	573	1. rights	308	1. rights	1898	1. rights	402
2. ilo	81	2. right	56	2. freedom	222	2. freedom	56
3. basic	66	3. basic	56	3. social	196	3. trade	53
4. freedom	65	4. work	45	4. international	180	4. union	50
5. fundamental	61	5. declaration	31	5. fundamental	179	5. ilo	48
6. labour	58	6. freedoms	27	6. respect	178	6. international	44
7. respect	47	7. social	26	7. labour	168	7. workers	42
8. standards	45	8. ilo	26	8. ilo	166	8. social	38
9. human	42	9. fundamental	25	9. basic	164	9. basic	38
10. social	39	10. countries	25	10. human	150	10. declaration	37
11. international	39	11. international	24	11. declaration	126	11. universal	35
12. conventions	38	12. universal	23	12. world	114	12. respect	35
13. world	37	13. union	23	13. workers	108	13. association	32
14. trade	37	14. trade	23	14. trade	107	14. fundamental	31
15. freedoms	36	15. human	21	15. universal	102	15. human	26
16. field	36	16. nations	20	16. violation	101	16. labour	23
17. declaration	36	17. united	19	17. freedoms	101	17. general	23
18. universal	33	18. one	17	18. justice	96	18. economic	22
19. union	33	19. economic	16	19. union	95	19. standards	21
20. association	33	20. world	15	20. nations	92	20. nations	21

Data availability statement

The data used in this article is available at the ILO website: https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/P/09616/