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• Vet any potential intermediaries (for criminal records, impartiality, trustworthiness, capacity for their role, affiliations, and ability to work with vulnerable people). • Be careful to avoid creating a perception of offering anything valuable in exchange for information (e.g. money, material assistance or access to aid). This does not apply to referral to services, which should be made where possible. • Ensure intermediaries do no harm and act according to basic ethical standards. • Ensure intermediaries do not coerce participation or expose victims or witnesses. • If safe to do so, work with community members, community leaders, medical service providers and support groups and institutions. • Clarify the role and its limitations, and what support or guidance they can expect. • You must have a reliable way of contacting the intermediary and they must have a reliable way of contacting you. • Keep a record of any interactions with intermediaries so that you can justify any decisions made regarding them. 70 Selection criteria: • Willingness and ability to o Respect the confidentiality of confidential information; o Act with integrity and demonstrate respect for diversity and for the dignity, well-being and privacy of victims, witnesses, or accused persons; and o Perform their role in a way that prevents or minimizes risks to any persons, and especially to those with whom the intermediary interacts. • Appropriate capacity, knowledge and experience. • Cultural, social and linguistic proximity to affected communities. • Access to/accessibility in the relevant area. • Experience with working with victims. • Resources (staff, financial, infrastructural, logistical, equipment). 71 70 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, 42-43 (2014). 71 International Criminal Court, Guidelines Governing the Relations between the Court and Intermediaries for the Organs and Units of the Court and Counsel working with intermediaries, 8-10 (2014), available at 54

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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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