TY - BOOK AU - Minority Rights Group AU - Anderson,Bridget TI - World directory of minorities /edited by Minority Rights Group ; preface by Alan Phillips ; contributors, Bridget Anderson ... [and others SN - 9781873194362 AV - GN495 .W675 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - London PB - Minority Rights Group International N1 - "Second edition"--P. [xiv; 2; Preface; Alan Phillips --; Introduction to the Directory; Miles Litvinoff --; 1. North America; Alex Roslin and Carl Wilson --; 2. Central and South America and the Caribbean; Patrick Costello, Lindsey Crickmay and James Ferguson --; 3. Western Europe; Bridget Anderson --; 4. Central and Eastern Europe; Martyn Rady and Bogdan Szajkowski --; 5. The Commonwealth of Independent States; Anna Matveeva, Neil Melvin and Suzanne Pattle --; 6. The Middle East; David McDowall --; 7. North, West and the Horn of Africa; Julia Maxted and Abebe Zegeye --; 8. Central and Southern Africa; Chris Dammers and David Sogge --; 9. South Asia; Javaid Rehman and Nikhil Roy --; 10. East and South-East Asia; James Chin, David Hawk and Peter O'Neill --; 11. Oceania; John Connell --; Contemporary Legal Standards on Minority Rights; Patrick Thornberry --; Appendix. Basic Documents on Minorities and Indigenous Peoples; Edited by Patrick Thornberry; 2 N2 - The World Directory of Minorities is an authoritative, concise and up-to-date reference book on the contemporary situation of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities worldwide. Covering more than 200 states and dependent territories, and over 700 minority groups, this region-by-region and country-by-country study provides a coherent and wide-ranging introduction to international, regional and local minority rights issues, complete with key bibliographical references and listings of organizations active in the field ER -