Published and distributed by HURIDOCS Advice and Support Unit/Secretariat 48 chemin du Grand-Montfleury CH-1290 Versoix Switzerland Tel. 41.22.755 5252, fax 41.22.755 5260 Electronic mail: info@huridocs.org Website: http://www.huridocs.org Copyright 2001 by HURIDOCS. All rights reserved. Limited copying permission: Human rights organisations and documentation centres are granted permission to photocopy portions of this document in order to facilitate documentation and training, provided acknowledgement of the source is given. For translations of this document in Arabic, French, Spanish and other languages contact the publisher. HURIDOCS Cataloguing in Publications Data TITLE: HURIDOCS events standard formats : a tool for documenting human rights violations PERSONAL AUTHOR: Dueck, Judith; Guzman, Manuel; Verstappen, Bert CORPORATE AUTHOR: HURIDOCS EDITION: 2nd rev. ed. PLACE OF PUBLICATION: Versoix [Switzerland] PUBLISHER: HURIDOCS DISTRIBUTOR: HURIDOCS ADDRESS: 48 chemin du Grand-Montfleury, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland ELECTRONIC MAIL: huridocs@comlink.org DATE OF PUBLICATION: 20010300 PAGES: xiii, 245 p. ISBN: 92-95015-00-2 LANGUAGE: ENG STATISTICAL INFORMATION: Y BIBLIOGRAPHIES: Y INDEX: INFORMATION HANDLING FREE TEXT: The Events Standard Formats are a methodology for using the "violations" approach in monitoring and documenting all types of human rights: civil and political as well as economic, social and cultural. They are integrated, flexible and adaptable, and cover the various aspects of documenting human rights events. This document contains formats with defined fields and instructions to assist organisations in documenting human rights-related events and in designing their databases, and for exchange of information among organisations.

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