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• Consider risks, for example, to local partner organizations, which may be at risk of being deregistered. • Also consider related risks, such as whether delivery of your primary mandate might be compromised by any of the above risks, and if so, whether it is worth taking the risk. 4. Consider what would happen if you were found in possession of the information or evidence that is gathered by, for example, a party to a conflict, someone associated with the perpetrator(s), or the authorities. 5. Consider what procedures can be put in place to prevent or lessen the risks identified: • Have you and your organization researched the context (people and society, culture and customs, politics, history, conflict, geography and government)? • Do you have a security and evacuation plan? • Do you have a communication plan? Can you speak the language or do you have an interpreter/intermediary? Have you memorized the number of an emergency contact if you find yourself in danger? Be mindful that keeping emergency contact details with you might expose both you and your contact(s) to danger in the case of a search. • Will you be adequately equipped to deal with any eventualities? For example, will you have sufficient extra fuel, supplies, first-aid kits and communication devices? • Can your team access a nearby medical facility? • Do you have a plan, policy and referral options in place regarding emergency assistance or transportation of any victims, witnesses, unaccompanied children, or other individuals you find in particular locations that are in need of such? 6. Consider the risk that you or your team may suffer vicarious trauma from dealing with the trauma of others. Unofficial investigators exposed to traumatic situations or dealing with traumatized persons should be encouraged to take extended or frequent leave to recover, to talk about the stress they are under, and to seek psychological counseling when necessary. 43 43 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, 34-35 (2014). 41

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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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