[{"content":"This page gathers academic work connected to Statistical Justice and to the broader question of how official data systems recognize, misrecognize, or fail marginalized populations. The papers presented here move between empirical research, conceptual development, and policy relevance, with a particular focus on gender identity, civil registration, vital statistics, and official data infrastructures.\nWhen death tears you apart: the omission of transgender identities in Colombian death certificates # Authors: Sebastian Leon-Giraldo, Paola Vargas,Juli Salamanca, Yoko Ruiz,Nelson Gordillo,Aura Liliana Torres \u0026amp; Nayib Chalela\nYear: 2025 | Journal: International Journal for Transgender Health\nThis peer-reviewed article examines how transgender identities are erased in Colombia’s death registration system and what that erasure means for dignity, public health, and institutional recognition. Based on qualitative interviews with transgender and non-binary community leaders across Colombia, the paper shows how administrative practices can extend exclusion beyond death itself, and argues that recognizing gender identity in death certificates is both a human rights issue and a matter of health equity.\nRead article\nBetween Statistical Invisibility and Surveillance: Data, Gender Identity, and the Right to Health # Authors: Sebastián León-Giraldo, Juli Salamanca and Lina Quevedo\nYear: 2026 | Journal: Health and Human Rights Journal\nThis viewpoint examines the tension between statistical invisibility and surveillance in the collection of gender identity data. It argues that improving visibility can support health equity and rights, but requires strong safeguards, community participation, and clear purposes for data collection so that recognition does not create new forms of harm.\nRead article in English\nWhen Populations Are Not Counted: Statistical Justice and Gender-Identity Data in Colombia’s Official Statistics # Authors: Sebastian Leon-Giraldo, Francisca Sanchez Osorio, Nayib Chalela, Fernande Alvarez.\nYear: 2026 | Journal: Data and Policy (Under Review)\nThis manuscript introduces Statistical Justice as a framework for understanding how official statistics can reproduce or challenge inequality. Drawing on Colombia’s gender-identity data ecosystem, it examines the gap between legal recognition and everyday data practice, and argues that inclusion in official statistics must be designed in ways that enable recognition, redistribution, and protection.\nAvailable soon\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/publications/academic-papers/","section":"Publications","summary":"","title":"Academic Publications","type":"publications"},{"content":"This page brings together public writing connected to the Statistical Justice project. These opinion pieces are shorter and more immediate than academic or technical documents, but they address many of the same questions: who gets recognized in official systems, what is lost when identity is erased in public records, and why these issues matter in public debate.\nWhy Statistical Justice Matters for Human Rights # Media: OpenGlobalRights | Date: Available soon\nThis article introduces statistical justice as a human rights issue. It examines how exclusion from official data can shape whose needs become visible to governments, researchers, and public institutions, and argues that meaningful recognition in data systems is increasingly important for making rights, inequalities, and policy responsibilities visible.\nWhich Lives Count in a Democracy? The Power to Decide What to Know About Trans People # Media: El Espectador | Date: 27 August 2026\nExamines how political decisions about what states measure and make visible shape their capacity to understand society, and why protecting that capacity is part of protecting democracy.\nRead op-ed in Spanish\nWhat Trans Experiences Reveal About Fragmented Digital Regulation # Global: Policy | Date: 24 August 2026\nThis op-ed examines how fragmented digital regulation can produce inconsistent forms of recognition across public institutions and digital systems. Using trans experiences as a case, it argues for more coherent approaches to data and digital governance that protect rights while ensuring that people are accurately recognized across the systems that increasingly shape public life.\nRead op-ed in English.\nThe right to a future: statistical justice as a condition for protecting trans and non-binary lives # Media: Liga de Salud Trans | Date: 28 June 2026\nThis op-ed calls for statistical justice to become a central priority of the broader sexual and gender diversity movement. It argues that visibility and symbolic inclusion must be translated into reliable and protected data, public budgets, policies, and accountability mechanisms that enable the state to recognize, protect, and respond to the realities of trans and non-binary people.\nRead op-ed in Spanish\nTrans visibility: from symbolism to genuine recognition # Media: Mutante | Date: 31 March 2026\nThis op-ed examines the gap between the legal recognition of trans identities and the state systems that continue to record people inconsistently or fail to recognize them altogether. It argues that genuine visibility requires more than symbolic inclusion: it demands coordinated public institutions, reliable and protected data, and the meaningful participation of trans communities in designing systems that recognize their identities and experiences with dignity.\nRead op-ed in Spanish\nTrans people, data, and good governance: a challenge for Abelardo de la Espriella # Media: El espectador | Date: 7 July 2026\nThis op-ed argues that statistical justice for trans people is a condition of good governance rather than a secondary technical concern. It examines how fragmented, inconsistent, and insufficiently protected government data systems produce institutional invisibility, and calls on Colombia’s incoming government to consolidate existing legal and institutional advances so that official information reflects the country’s true diversity.\nRead op-ed in Spanish\nA commemoration that falls short: inclusion in discourse, barriers in practice # Media: El espectador | Date: 17 May 2026\nThis op-ed examines the contradiction between public celebrations of diversity and the institutional barriers that trans people continue to face. It argues that symbolic inclusion is not enough when health and information systems still pathologize trans identities, restrict access to gender-affirming care, and fail to accurately document the violence experienced by trans communities.\nRead op-ed in Spanish\nTrans memory: when identity is lost in official records # Media: El espectador | Date: 20 November 2025\nThis op-ed reflects on memory, recognition, and the consequences of losing identity within state records. It connects official documentation to dignity, remembrance, and the ways institutions can continue to erase people even after death.\nRead op-ed in Spanish\nStatistical justice for trans and non-binary people # Media: El Espectador | Date: 20 October 2025\nThis op-ed introduces the idea of Statistical Justice in relation to the exclusion of trans and non-binary people from official systems of recognition and counting. It is written for a wider public audience and helps translate the project’s central concerns into a more direct public conversation.\nRead op-ed in Spanish\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/publications/op-eds/","section":"Publications","summary":"","title":"Op-Eds","type":"publications"},{"content":"This page brings together policy briefs and technical documents developed through the Statistical Justice project. These publications translate research findings, institutional analysis, and community knowledge into practical recommendations for governments, public institutions, civil society organizations, and other actors working to improve official data systems. They examine how people are recognized across administrative records, identity documents, health systems, and death-registration processes, and propose concrete pathways to make public information more inclusive, reliable, coordinated, and protective of trans and non-binary people.\nA diverse CRVS system: toward data that include everyone # Type: Technical report\nOrganizations: Vital Strategies, Liga de Salud Trans, and Global Health Advocacy Incubator\nDate: July 2024\nThis technical report examines whether Colombia’s civil registration and vital statistics system is prepared to recognize gender diversity. Combining international evidence, legal and institutional analysis, vital statistics data, and interviews with trans community leaders, it identifies gaps in official records and proposes practical measures to improve recognition, data quality, institutional coordination, and the inclusion of gender identity in death registration.\nRead technical report in Spanish\nWhen death tears you apart: the omission of trans identities from death certificates in Colombia # Type: Policy brief\nOrganizations: Liga de Salud Trans\nDate: March 2026\nThis policy brief translates the findings of a qualitative study with trans and non-binary community leaders across Colombia into practical recommendations for institutional reform. It documents how death-registration processes can erase lived identities, obstruct investigations and mourning, and exclude chosen families, and calls for gender identity and chosen names to be recorded, advance declarations to be recognized, and institutional protocols to be developed with trans organizations.\nRead the policy brief in Spanish\nTrans and non-binary people in Colombia’s vital statistics: statistical invisibility is a rights issue, not a technical problem # Type: Policy brief\nOrganizations: Liga de Salud Trans\nDate: May 2026\nThis policy brief explains how statistical invisibility produces concrete harms for trans and non-binary people in Colombia: transfeminicides disappear from official data, inconsistencies between government records create barriers to services, and public policies are designed without adequate evidence. It identifies a timely window for reform and calls for coordinated government action, meaningful participation by trans communities, and strong safeguards against surveillance and misuse of personal data.\nRead the policy brief in Spanish\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/publications/policy-briefs/","section":"Publications","summary":"","title":"Policy Briefs / Technical Documents","type":"publications"},{"content":" Introduction # This advocacy kit brings together practical and accessible resources for advancing statistical justice in Colombia. Developed by Liga de Salud Trans with the support of the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, the materials are designed for trans and non-binary communities, civil society organizations, public institutions, researchers, and allies.\nThe kit explains how vital statistics and government information systems affect recognition, access to rights, public policy, and the protection of trans and non-binary lives. It also offers concrete tools for community education, public communication, institutional dialogue, collective organizing, and accountability.\nThe resources can be used independently or together in workshops, meetings, campaigns, advocacy processes, and conversations with public institutions.\nUnderstanding statistical justice # Vital statistics and trans people # A short introduction to vital statistics, the institutions involved in producing them, and their importance for public policy and the protection of rights. It explains why the inclusion of trans and non-binary people in official data is necessary for building more inclusive, respectful, and secure information systems.\nDownload resource in Spanish\nThe journey of sex and gender information through Colombia’s official systems # This resource maps how information is recorded and circulated from birth to death across Colombia’s civil registration, identification, health, forensic, and vital statistics systems. It identifies points where trans and non-binary people may be made invisible, misclassified, or erased from official data.\nDownload resource in Spanish\nAdvocacy glossary # A practical glossary of key concepts for discussing statistical justice, including gender identity, vital statistics, civil registration, data quality, interoperability, sensitive data, and statistical invisibility. Each definition explains why the concept matters for advocacy and public decision-making.\nDownload resource in Spanish\nCommunicating the issue # Comments and responses # A collection of clear, firm, and careful responses to common objections about gender identity and official statistics. The resource helps advocates respond to misinformation, explain why better data matter, and address legitimate concerns about privacy, protection, and the potential misuse of information.\nDownload resource in Spanish\nElevator speech # A short suggested explanation of why vital statistics matter and how the exclusion or misclassification of trans and non-binary people affects public policy. It can be used in meetings, presentations, interviews, workshops, and informal conversations.\nDownload resource in Spanish\nCampaign messages and visual resources # A set of short messages and visual materials for campaigns, workshops, social media, and public events. The messages connect data with dignity, recognition, protection, and the right of trans and non-binary people to be counted accurately.\nDownload resource in Spanish\nOrganizing and taking action # Tools for advocacy # A practical introduction to community, technical, political, and communication strategies for advancing statistical justice. It proposes five complementary routes: community education, documentation of experiences, dialogue with institutions, citizen oversight, and public communication.\nDownload resource in Spanish\nCommunity meeting record # A printable template for organizing community or advocacy meetings. It helps participants define the problem they want to transform, identify the institutions involved, agree on priority actions, assign responsibilities, and establish dates for follow-up.\nDownload resource in Spanish\nEmail to public institutions # A simple template for contacting government institutions, requesting information, proposing a meeting, presenting a concern, or asking for a specific institutional commitment. It helps advocates communicate the problem, the request, and the proposed next step clearly.\nDownload resource in Spanish\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/resources/advocacy-toolkit/","section":"Resources","summary":"","title":"Advocacy Toolkit","type":"resources"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/authors/","section":"Authors","summary":"","title":"Authors","type":"authors"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":"Please use the form below to get in touch regarding research, talks, or educational materials.\nEmail Message Send ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/contact-us/","section":"Statistical Justice","summary":"","title":"Contact Us","type":"page"},{"content":" Community knowledge, research, storytelling, advocacy, and institutional change for statistical justice. A trans-led agenda for statistical justice # Our work on statistical justice grows from Liga de Salud Trans, a trans-led organization working at the intersection of health, human rights, research, public policy, and community advocacy in Colombia.\nThis agenda begins with our own experiences and with the knowledge that trans and non-binary communities have built through years of organizing, care, research, and political action. We connect that knowledge with scientific evidence, technical analysis, public communication, education, and sustained engagement with government institutions.\nOur purpose is to transform the systems through which the State recognizes people, produces official data, allocates resources, and makes decisions. We work so that trans and non-binary people are recognized as who we are, that recognition translates into rights and public protection, and being counted does not expose us to new forms of harm.\nHow change happens # Statistical justice cannot be achieved through a single publication, meeting, or policy reform. It requires a connected process. Community knowledge helps us identify forms of exclusion that official systems often fail to see. Research allows us to document those problems and understand how they are produced. Policy briefs, courses, advocacy tools, and public communication translate evidence into resources for different audiences. Institutional dialogue brings that knowledge into the spaces where regulations, information systems, budgets, and public policies are shaped.\nEach part of this process informs the others. Research strengthens advocacy. Institutional conversations generate new research questions. Public communication changes how problems are understood. Community knowledge guides the direction of the entire agenda.\nWe produce knowledge from our realities # We develop scientific, legal, technical, participatory, and community-led research on how official systems recognize, misclassify, or erase trans and non-binary people. Our work examines civil registration, vital statistics, identity documents, health information systems, death certificates, administrative records, and other infrastructures through which the State produces knowledge about society. We publish scientific articles, qualitative studies, legal reviews, technical reports, and policy briefs that connect academic rigor with the realities and political questions emerging from trans communities.\nTrans people are not simply participants or sources of data in this work. Our experiences, leadership, questions, and forms of knowledge shape what is studied, how findings are interpreted, and what institutional changes are proposed.\nResearch is built collectively, bringing together community leaders, researchers, institutions, and allies. Community knowledge and lived experience shape the questions we ask and the evidence we produce. We translate knowledge into tools for action # Evidence must be accessible and usable beyond academic spaces. We translate research into policy briefs, technical documents, courses, advocacy kits, glossaries, infographics, presentations, videos, and other practical resources.\nThese materials help trans-led organizations, public officials, researchers, journalists, students, and civil society actors understand how statistical exclusion operates and what can be done to transform it. They are designed not only to explain the problem, but also to support meetings, campaigns, institutional dialogue, collective organizing, and public accountability.\nThrough open learning resources and practical tools, we seek to ensure that knowledge about statistical justice does not remain confined to universities or technical institutions.\nTurning complex information into accessible tools for learning, advocacy, and action. Practical resources help translate evidence into conversations that can support institutional change We shape public narratives # Statistical systems are often presented as neutral or purely technical. Our public communication work shows that they are also connected to dignity, health, memory, violence, public resources, and the recognition of rights.\nWe use op-eds, podcasts, public events, short videos, social media, book projects, and audiovisual storytelling to bring these questions into public debate. These formats allow us to communicate in our own voices, connect institutional processes with everyday experiences, and reach audiences that may never read an academic paper or technical report.\nChanging public narratives is part of changing institutions. When statistical invisibility becomes recognizable as a matter of rights and good governance, new forms of public action become possible.\nStorytelling connects official data with memory, dignity, recognition, and lived experience. Public conversations bring questions of data, rights, and recognition to wider audiences. Public writing brings statistical invisibility and recognition into broader public debate. We bring evidence into decision-making # We take evidence into the spaces where public decisions are made. Our advocacy includes strategic breakfasts, meetings with members of Congress, technical roundtables, conversations with ministries and public agencies, public forums, working sessions, and sustained engagement with the institutions responsible for registration, statistics, health, justice, forensic procedures, identification, data protection, and human rights.\nWe also bring this agenda to academic and international conferences, where evidence, standards, public policies, and emerging approaches to data and human rights are debated.\nThese spaces allow us to present evidence, identify institutional responsibilities, understand implementation challenges, build shared recommendations, and follow up on public commitments. We work to move conversations from general recognition toward concrete changes in regulations, procedures, information systems, and public policy.\nBuilding institutional change through dialogue, evidence, coordination, and shared commitments. Bringing statistical justice into spaces where research, policy, and institutional reform are debated. We build spaces for collective action # Statistical justice cannot be achieved by one organization or one public institution acting alone. Official information moves across multiple systems, agencies, professions, and levels of government.\nWe create spaces where trans-led organizations, activists, researchers, public institutions, and allies can identify shared problems, coordinate responsibilities, and develop collective pathways for reform. Community consultations, advisory groups, technical roundtables, public forums, and collaborative workshops help turn isolated efforts into sustained agendas.\nThese spaces create relationships, shared commitments, and mechanisms for coordination and follow-up, allowing the work to continue beyond a single meeting, event, or project.\nPublic spaces create new ways to connect knowledge, memory, visibility, and collective action. We develop technical pathways for institutional reform # Institutional change also requires technical pathways. We work with specialists, public institutions, trans-led organizations, and community experts to understand how information moves through government systems, where it is lost or distorted, and what changes are needed to improve its quality.\nThis work includes mapping data flows, reviewing forms and administrative procedures, developing data dictionaries, identifying quality checks, analyzing interoperability, and producing prioritized technical recommendations. Our objective is to make reform both politically meaningful and institutionally implementable.\nTechnical accuracy and community participation must advance together. A system can only produce statistical justice when it recognizes people with dignity, protects sensitive information, and creates data that can support rights and public action.\nEvidence enters decision-making through sustained dialogue with communities and public institutions. From Colombia to a regional and global agenda # Our work is rooted in Colombia, but statistical invisibility extends across borders. We are building connections with trans-led organizations, researchers, and advocates across Latin America and beyond to exchange knowledge, produce comparative evidence, and develop shared strategies for statistical justice.\nWe seek to strengthen locally led agendas that respond to each country’s political, legal, cultural, and institutional context rather than replicate a single model. Through regional and global collaboration, we aim to amplify trans-led knowledge, support collective advocacy, and contribute to information systems that recognize and protect people while reflecting the diversity of our societies.\nWhat statistical justice means to us # Statistical justice is how we connect community knowledge, scientific evidence, public narratives, technical work, and institutional advocacy.\nFrom Liga de Salud Trans, we are building an agenda that moves from identifying statistical exclusion to transforming the systems that produce it. Our goal is not simply to appear in official data. It is to be recognized with dignity, to influence the decisions that affect our lives, and to ensure that information becomes a tool for rights, care, memory, and protection.\nStatistical justice begins in local realities and connects them to wider struggles for recognition. ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/our-work/","section":"Statistical Justice","summary":"","title":"Our Work","type":"page"},{"content":"This page brings together podcast episodes and public conversations connected to the Statistical Justice project. The collection approaches statistical justice from different entry points, including legal reform, identity documents, public data systems, institutional practices, and community advocacy. Through conversations with people working across government, research, and civil society, these episodes examine how formal rights become part of government systems, and what is required for recognition to translate into dignity, protection, and meaningful institutional change.\nFirst Episode # A historic decree in uncertain times Series: Navegantes\nOrganization: Liga de Salud Trans | Guest: Jorge Iván Cuervo | Date: 2 August 2026\nThis episode features a conversation with Jorge Iván Cuervo, former Minister of Justice, about Decree 0732 of 2026 and its significance for the recognition of trans and non-binary people in Colombia. It examines how legal recognition is translated into civil registration and identity documents, the institutional challenges involved in implementing the reform, and the need to protect this advance amid political uncertainty.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/resources/podcast/","section":"Resources","summary":"","title":"Podcast and Public Conversations","type":"resources"},{"content":"This section brings together the academic, technical, and public-facing work that has helped shape the Statistical Justice project. It includes peer-reviewed and in-progress research, policy and technical documents, and opinion pieces written for wider public audiences. Together, these materials show how Statistical Justice is being developed across different forms of writing: through research, through institutional and policy analysis, and through public debate.\nThe project began from questions around gender identity, official statistics, and the failures of recognition built into state data systems.\nOur existence is not a debate ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/publications/","section":"Publications","summary":"","title":"Publications","type":"publications"},{"content":"This page brings together the educational and practical resources being developed as part of the Statistical Justice project. While the framework began as a research and advocacy agenda, it is also intended to become a tool for teaching, learning, and institutional reflection.\nRather than functioning only as a research concept, Statistical Justice is also intended to become something that can be taught, discussed, and applied. Over time, this space will include materials such as visual explainers, guides, and short pedagogical documents.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/resources/","section":"Resources","summary":"","title":"Resources","type":"resources"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/series/","section":"Series","summary":"","title":"Series","type":"series"},{"content":" A framework developed from work in Colombia and designed to travel across contexts Explore the Framework Read the Research The problemOfficial data systems do not always recognize people as they are. Trans and non-binary people may be recorded under names, gender markers, or categories that fail to reflect their identities and lived realities. These are not simply technical errors. Official data shape what governments can see, measure, fund, and address. When recognition fails, inequalities become harder to trace, violence and exclusion can disappear from official statistics, and disparities in health, access to care, and health outcomes can remain hidden. Public policies and services are then built on incomplete representations of society.\nStatistical Justice addresses a fundamental question: who is recognized in government systems, on what terms, and with what consequences? The framework helps examine how official data can better reflect the diversity of societies while advancing recognition, redistribution, and protection.\nDeveloped by\nWith the support of\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Statistical Justice","summary":"","title":"Statistical Justice","type":"page"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"},{"content":"This page presents a growing portfolio of book projects developed as part of the Statistical Justice agenda. Conceived as trans-led and collaborative works, these projects create space to bring together research, community knowledge, lived experience, memory, and political analysis in formats that allow for deeper and more sustained exploration.\nThe proposed books examine different dimensions of statistical exclusion while foregrounding the knowledge, care, organizing, and resistance developed by trans and non-binary communities. The projects are currently at the concept and development stages, and we are seeking funding for research, community and regional coordination, editorial production, translation, and publication.\nBook Project 1: # Invisibilizades: The Consequences of the Statistical Invisibility of Trans People and Forms of Resistance in Latin America\nStatus: Currently seeking funding for research, regional coordination, editorial development, and publication.\nInvisibilizades is a proposed multi-voice book about what happens when trans and non-binary people are excluded, erased, or misrepresented in official data across Latin America. It will explore the consequences of statistical invisibility for health, violence, rights, memory, and public policy, while foregrounding the knowledge, care, organizing, and community strategies developed to confront it.\nThe book responds to an especially urgent regional moment. Anti-gender movements and narratives are challenging the legitimacy of trans identities, weakening public commitments to equality, and placing hard-won but still fragile advances in law, policy, and institutional recognition at risk. In this context, documenting how trans communities have been counted, erased, protected, and exposed is not only an exercise in research and memory; it is also a strategy for defending rights and preserving the gains that communities have built. The project seeks to bring together contributors from across the region, strengthen connections among trans-led organizations, and contribute to a shared Latin American agenda for statistical justice. By connecting experiences across countries, it aims to support collective reflection, regional solidarity, and new strategies for protecting and advancing recognition, rights, and institutional change.\nProyecto de libro, un espacio para reunir investigación, conocimiento comunitario, memoria y reflexión política sobre la justicia estadística. ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/resources/the-book/","section":"Resources","summary":"","title":"The Book Projects              ","type":"resources"},{"content":"Statistical Justice is a framework for thinking about what official data systems owe to the populations they count .Situated within broader debates on data justice, it focuses specifically on the role of official statistics and government data systems in shaping recognition, representation, and access to rights and resources. It argues that just statistical governance requires recognition, redistribution, and protection, none without the others.\nOfficial statistical systems do more than describe society. They shape who becomes visible to the state, how people are classified, and what follows for rights, resources, and public action. When these systems exclude, misclassify, or distort the lives of marginalized populations, the consequences are not merely technical. They are political, institutional, and deeply human.\nWhat is Statistical Justice? # The right to be recognized in government systems, and for official data to reflect the true diversity of societies.\nThis means more than being counted. A population can appear in official records and still be misrepresented through categories that distort its reality, erase important dimensions of identity, or fail to reflect how people understand themselves. Statistical Justice starts from the idea that representation in official data is not simply a technical outcome. It is a matter of governance, dignity, and justice.\nThe Three Dimensions # The framework is organized around three connected dimensions: recognition, redistribution, and protection. Together, they help explain not only how statistical injustice happens, but also what more just statistical governance would require.\nRecognition # Recognition means being represented in an accurate and self-determined way, free from pathologizing or distorting categories. Statistical Justice argues that inclusion alone is not enough. The categories used should be developed in ways that respect dignity, lived experience, and the participation of the populations they describe.\nRedistribution # Redistribution asks whether statistical visibility leads to material consequences in the world. Visibility does not automatically produce justice. Statistical Justice treats redistribution as a core part of what just representation requires, ensuring visibility translates into better services and fairer policies.\nProtection # Protection means that populations must be included under conditions that do not increase their exposure to surveillance, discrimination, or harm. Protection is not a limit on inclusion; it is a condition for it.\nTwo Key Concepts # The framework also introduces two key concepts that help explain why statistical injustice persists even in contexts where legal recognition has advanced.\nLegal-statistical decoupling\nHow can legal recognition exist without statistical recognition?\nThis describes the structural gap between legal recognition and statistical reform. A population may gain rights under the law, while the official statistical systems that shape collective visibility remain unchanged.\nThe visibility-protection paradox\nWhat happens when visibility is offered without protection?\nThis captures a central tension: becoming more visible can also mean becoming more vulnerable. Inclusion in official systems may support access or policy response, but it can also create exposure to surveillance or discrimination. Real visibility requires protection.\nStatistical Justice offers a way to name a structural problem, understand how it works, and imagine what more just statistical systems might require.\n","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/the-framework/","section":"Statistical Justice","summary":"","title":"The Framework","type":"page"},{"content":" Currently in development As part of this broader educational line of work, we are currently developing an online course on Statistical Justice.\nThe course is being designed to introduce the framework in a clear, accessible, and useful way for different audiences. It will explore the core ideas behind Statistical Justice, the problems it seeks to name, and the institutional and political questions it raises for official data systems.\nInterested in receiving updates about the course? Please get in touch.\nKeep me updated ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/resources/mooc/","section":"Resources","summary":"","title":"The MOOC","type":"resources"}]