Abstract
The Map Sheet on selected human rights issues consists of four maps focusing on three main topics: the aggregate indicator of the level of observance of human rights in countries around the world compared to the number of ratifications of the main international human rights treaties (as of 2018-2019), the topic of press freedom in countries around the world (aggregate indicator as of 2017), the number of journalists killed between 2015 and June 29, 2020, oppression of journalists in the form of their imprisonment or disappearance - averages for the period 2015-2020) and respect for human rights in Europe according to the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights for the period 1959-2018 (or for the period of each country's membership in the Council of Europe and its ratification of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and related protocols). A combination of a choropleth map and a proportional or graduated symbol map method, or in one case, a choropleth map and a cartogram are used.
Thus, students and other readers of the map should understand the geographical diversity of the level of respect for human rights in the world or in Europe and, for example, the differences between the actual situation and the often only formal commitments of states in international treaties. Last but not least, maps make it possible to compare and understand the differences between absolute and relative indicators.