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Human Rights and Statistics: Bibliography and Links to Sites and Documents

compiled by Bert Verstappen



This Bibliography with links to sites and documents is partially based upon the one compiled by Herb Spirer for his course at Columbia University - see https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/outview/courseenter.cfm?no=INAFU8165_001_2002_3 Suggestions for additional resources are welcome at info@huridocs.org

Publications

Ball, Patrick. Who did what to whom? : planning and implementing a large scale human rights data project. Washington: AAAS, 1996.
http://shr.aaas.org/www/cover.htm

Ball, Patrick ; Paul Kobrak and Herbert F. Spirer. State violence in Guatemala, 1960-1996 : a quantitative reflection. Washington: AAAS, 1999.
http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ciidh/qr/english/qrtitle.html.

Ball, Patrick ; Paul Kobrak and Herbert F. Spirer. Violencia institucional en Guatemala, 1960 a 1996: una reflexión cuantitativa. Washington: AAAS, 1999.
http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ciidh/qr/spanish/.

Ball, Patrick; Spirer, Herbert S. and Spirer, Louise. Making the case : investigating large scale human rights violations using information systems and data analysis. Washington: AAAS, 2000.
http://shr.aaas.org/mtc/.

Ball, Patrick. Political killings in Kosova/Kosovo, March-June 1999. Washington: AAAS, 2001.
http://shr.aaas.org/kosovo/pk/politicalkillings.pdf.
A cooperative report by the Central and East European Law Initiative of the American Bar Association and the Science and Human Rights Program of the AAAS.

Ball, Patrick. Policy or panic?: the flight of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, March-May 1999. Washington: AAAS, 2000.
http://shr.aaas.org/kosovo/policyorpanic/.

Dueck, Judith; Manuel Guzman and Bert Verstappen. HURIDOCS events standard formats: a tool for documenting human rights violations. Versoix: HURIDOCS, 2001.
http://www.huridocs.org/standard.htm#revesf.
The Events Standard Formats are a methodology for using the "violations" approach in monitoring and documenting all types of human rights. The formats have defined fields and instructions to assist organisations in documenting events and in designing their databases.

Dueck, Judith; Manuel Guzman and Bert Verstappen. HURIDOCS micro-thesauri: a tool for documenting human rights violations. Versoix: HURIDOCS, 2001.
http://www.huridocs.org/standard.htm#microthes.
A collection of 48 human rights thesauri developed by HURIDOCS or adapted from various sources.

Human Rights Watch, Under orders : war crimes in Kosovo. New York: Human Rights Watch, October 2001.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo. Chapter 15 is the statistical analysis of the violations.

IAOS Conference on Statistics, Development and Human Rights: 4-8 September 2000, Montreux, Switzerland:
http://www.statistik.admin.ch/about/international/.
Various interesting papers on the different themes of the Conference can be found under Detailed Scientific Programme.

Jabine, Thomas B. and Richard P. Claude (eds.). Human rights and statistics : getting the record straight. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8122-3108-2. xvii, 458 p.

Spirer, Herbert S. and Spirer, Louise. Intermediate data analysis for human rights. New York: Columbia University, 2001.
Available on the Datasets/Text page at http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sipa/U8165/.

United Nations Development Programme. Human Development Report Office. Human development report 2000 : human rights and human development. New York: UNDP and Oxford University Press, 2000.
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2000/en/

Workshop Statistics & Human Rights: 29-31 November 2002, Brussels, Belgium.
http://cdg-fz.de/workshop3/.


Sites

Human Rights Data Analysis Group. http://shr.aaas.org/hrdag/. Science and Human Rights Program. American Association for the Advancement of Science.

CIIDH Data. http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ciidh/data.html, Washington: AAAS, 2000) This is the full CIIDH data set for Guatemala in several formats, compressed for faster download. Site includes value labels, variable labels, and data dictionary.

Partnership for Statistics in Development in the 21st Century - PARIS21. http://www.paris21.org. The Paris21 Consortium is a partnership of policymakers, analysts, and statisticians from all countries of the world. Its structure includes the Metagora Project (Measuring Democracy, Human Rights and Good Governance).

United Nations Statistics Division. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/.


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