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E-book Protection of Victims, Witnesses and Other Cooperating Persons
This chapter is intended to provide practical guidance on the protection of persons who come into contact with HROs in the context of human rights monitoring and fact-finding activities (hereinafter:
cooperating persons), and who may face threats or be subjected to reprisals as a result of that interaction. The focus of this chapter, and of the Manual, is on activities carried out by HROs working
in human rights field presences. However, it is important to note that the principles and many of the approaches described in the chapter may also apply, mutatis mutandis, to the work of other
international human rights monitoring mechanisms, including special procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council, international commissions of inquiry, fact-finding missions and country visits by the human rights treaty bodies. In this context, protection refers to the application of all measures that can contribute to preventing or minimizing the risk of harm and/or reduce any threats that can jeopardize the life or physical integrity of cooperating persons and/or stop harm being inflicted on them. Protective measures include both measures taken to prevent placing a cooperating person at risk (preventive) and those taken when such a person faces a threat or is subjected to reprisals (response).
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