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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.