Explanation
- A
Amnesty International
(a) Amnesty International. Amnesty issues human-rights reports, not the Rule of Law Index. This letter is not the key.
- B
International Court of Justice
(b) International Court of Justice. The ICJ settles inter-state legal disputes at The Hague; it does not publish this index. This is not the key.
- C
The Office of UN Commissioner for Human Rights
(c) The Office of UN Commissioner for Human Rights. OHCHR is the UN human-rights secretariat, not the publisher of the Rule of Law Index. This is not the key.
- D
World Justice Project
(d) World Justice Project. (d) Official key: The Rule of Law Index is released by the World Justice Project, an independent organisation scoring countries on constraints on government, corruption, open government, rights, order and security, regulation, civil and criminal justice.
Summary. Official key is (d) World Justice Project. The Rule of Law Index is WJP’s annual cross-country scorecard. Amnesty, the ICJ and OHCHR work in rights and adjudication but do not issue this index. Honour the stored letter (d).
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