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• Be careful not to allow speculation, bias or discrimination to affect the documentation exercise. • Act with care and professionalism, objectivity, open-mindedness and impartiality. 34 2.1.7 Managing Expectations Managing expectations is another important aspect of the informationgathering process. Be careful not to offer unrealistic guarantees concerning the use of the information collected, its confidentiality, or the safety of a victim, witness or any other individual. Do not raise false hopes regarding issues that depend on factors outside of your control, such as the use of the information gathered in a court of law, or the possibility of future reparations. Do not make promises that cannot be kept, and ensure that any promises that are made are feasible. For example, only offer protection if one’s organization is equipped with – or plugged into a network of providers of – security measures. 35 2.1.8 Preserving the Chain of Custody of Information The chain of custody describes accurately and in detail every handler of the information concerned, from source or origin to production. Preserving the chain of custody is one of the main objectives of proper information management and starts when someone first receives or collects the information. For any piece of information or object to be used as evidence, the chain of custody must remain intact and should be able to be produced. A complete and unbroken chain of custody accounts for: • The whereabouts of the piece of information, whether it be documentary, forensic, or testimonial, from the moment someone receives it to the moment they hand it over to an investigating authority; • All people who handled that information; and 34 Office on Drugs and Crime, CRIME SCENE AND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AWARENESS FOR NON-FORENSIC PERSONNEL, 5 (2009); International Bar Association and Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, The Lund-London Guidelines, 30 (2009). 35 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Training Manual on Human Rights Monitoring, 91, 119. (1996). 36

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Descripción: 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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