Popular opinions and statistics claim that we have not, as a civilization, come really far in our plight to fight and protect the human rights of minorities in societies. Fariss, Christopher J in his article “Respect for Human Rights has Improved over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability,” provides a contrary opinion. “The pattern of constant abuse found in data derived from human rights reports is not an indication of stagnating human rights practices. Instead, it reflects a systematic change in the way monitoring agencies, like Amnesty International and the U.S. State Department, encounter and interpret information about human rights abuses.”