HURIDOCS – This guide aims to help human rights workers understand better the whole subject of monitoring. It introduces to the reader many concepts and specialized terminology in this field, and gives an overview of the various bodies involved in human rights monitoring. It serves as a very suitable introductory reading material before moving on to various books and other materials on the subject of monitoring and documentation.
The volumes in this Series are especially designed for small non-governmental human rights organizations, considering that they often have limited resources and small staff who are assigned with multiple tasks. The handy size of the manuals make them excellent reference materials. In addition, they are written in a style to facilitate learning and could serve effectively as materials for training, including individualized and self-initiated learning.