Human rights reports : an annotated bibliography of fact-finding missions /

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Author / Creator:Verstappen, Berth
Imprint:London ; New York : H. Zell Publishers, 1987.
Description:xiii, 393 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Civil rights -- Bibliography.
Human rights -- Bibliography
Civil rights.
Human rights.
Bibliography.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/896458
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Other authors / contributors:Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten (Netherlands)
ISBN:0905450353 : £45.00
Notes:"Published for the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights-SIM."
Includes indexes.
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A bibliography that lists nongovernment organization and intergovernment organization human rights fact-finding mission reports. The annotated list was developed as an addition to the database of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. Apparently it has been reprinted directly without benefit of editing. This has resulted in a number of problems. Learning that the ``descriptions of the documents are reproduced here according to fixed fields as contained in the HURIDOCS Standard Formats'' is of little help to the reader lacking an explanation of those formats. Although many of the fields are so self-evident there is little reason to identify them in each document, some are bewildering, and others (e.g., ``the catalogue signature'') superfluous in the printed version. Too often, a full page is used for each report, rather than editing the printout to fit two reports on a page. One way to conserve space would have been to abandon arrangement by author's last name. This would cause no hardship to the reader, since the indexes (by country, publisher, and keyword) do not include one by author. Minimal editing would have caught the numerous typos and reduced the book's length. The effort clearly evident in compiling the citations for the bibliography is lacking in the published work. Libraries needing this specialized information will want this book.-J.H. Whaley Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University

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