2.7 WHAT ACTIONS WERE TAKEN IN RESPONSE AND WHO DID WHAT? Source and Intervening Party Definition Source is the person (individual or group) who provides information on the event and/or its elements. Definition Intervening party is the person (individual or group) who intervenes in an event, such as to aid a victim, or to seek to stop an ongoing violation. 2.8 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Provision also needs to be made for including and recording further information, whether about the actors (victims and perpetrators, sources and intervening parties) or about the acts. Definition Biographic Details are data that document key periods in the life of an individual or group, including the various relationships that the individual or group has gone through, such as being a spouse, a member of a group, an affiliate of a bigger group or police or military careers. Other types of information that are also relevant in human rights monitoring include the educational and employment history of an individual. Biographic details generally consist of information current at the time of recording. But at times, it is also helpful to maintain records concerning the past and to continue maintaining and updating these records as time passes. For example, a specific individual may join a group, or a specific organisation may affiliate with another at some point in time. Biographic details can therefore be either a snapshot of the current situation, or a series of sets of information in relation to different time nodes. For instance, one can follow the movement of an individual in terms of organisations s/he has been a member of, in the process recording his or her personal history as far as organisational affiliation is concerned. One example where this could be useful is in tracing the history of a perpetrator (e.g. an army officer who moves from one posting to another), to be matched with patterns of human rights violations. Definition Additional Details - additional information that documents aspects that are specific to particular types of acts. In the course of fact-finding, there are standard questions that need to be answered, such as identification of perpetrators, identification of victims and the description of the event. These questions would be the same no matter what types of acts or events the fact-finder is dealing with. However, there are certain kinds of information, referred to as Additional Details that are specific only to certain kinds of acts. For instance, for victims who underwent arrest, it is very relevant to ask questions related to court charges, the presiding judge, amount of bail, etc. In a case of torture questions such as whether a medical officer assisted are pertinent, while in a case of destruction of property, matters such as the value of the property should be included. 13