| Priority
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Importance within field
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Impact
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Need for encyclopedia
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Examples
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| Top
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Article/subject is crucial to a broad-based understanding of human rights
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Widespread (global) and definitive impact on human rights
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An absolute "must-have" for any reasonable encyclopedia
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Human rights, Geneva Conventions
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| High
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Article/subject contributes a substantial depth of knowledge
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Significant impact outside context of article. Impact is global, regional or national.
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Very much needed, even vital
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Amnesty International, Freedom of speech, Rwandan Genocide
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| Mid
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Article/subject adds important further details to the topic of human rights
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Some impact on human rights outside immediate context of article.
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Adds further depth, but not vital to encyclopedia
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René Cassin, Canadian Human Rights Commission, Freedom House
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| Low
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Article/subject contributes more specific or less significant details
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Mainly of specialist interest - has little impact on human rights outside immediate context of article
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Not at all essential, or can be covered adequately in lists or other articles
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La Cantuta massacre, International Center for Transitional Justice, Crushing
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| (None)
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Article/subject may be peripheral
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May be only indirectly related to human rights.
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May not be relevant or may be too trivial in content to be needed
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Comment: such articles are not relevant enough to the Human rights project to need a rating.
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