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• Could you describe how the events made you feel at the time? • Do you recall if anyone (else) witnessed or may have witnessed the events you described? • Have you discussed this with others and/or the media? 141 Some helpful tools for structuring questions are provided in the tables below: TEDS Tell Could you tell me exactly what happened? Explain Could you explain to me what happened afterwards? Describe Could you describe to me what that person looked like? Show Could you show me on this map where this happened? Probing 5 W’s + How What happened? What Where Where did this happen? When When did this happen? Who Who else was there? Why Why do you think they did that? How How did that make you feel? It is recommended that unofficial investigators primarily obtain first accounts and only go into further detail to clarify issues when there is an absolute need for this, or the lack of clarity is a major disruptive factor in the 141 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Anti-human Trafficking manual for criminal justice practitioners, module 8: Interviewing victims of trafficking in persons who are potential witnesses, 48-50 (2009), available at http://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/TIP_module8_Ebook.pdf. 102

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Description: Increasingly, civil society actors engage in documentation and investigation processes, seeking to collect evidence against those responsible for serious human rights violations. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide guidelines and best practices for the collection and management of information on serious human rights situations for those that are not professionally trained in such documentation practices. While the Handbook strongly emphasizes the need to refrain from investigating human rights abuses and to refer to professionals, practice shows that this is not always possible. Only under such circumstances and as a last resort may civil society actors consider engaging in certain documentation practices and not in others, always seeking to include professionals when and where possible. They may however only do so by adhering to the ethical principles and documentation guidelines that are provided in this Handbook. These enable unofficial investigators to do no harm, identify security risks, preserve crime scenes, prevent the loss of evidence, and manage the information in manner that preserves confidentiality, security and probative value, with an eye to possible use in later redress processes and without jeopardizing the future work of professionally trained and officially appointed investigators.

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