• • • • existing guidelines for specific groups that will be interviewed, such as survivors of sexual violence and children, and to define questions for each of the issues under investigation, for example, torture, use of force, arbitrary detention. Guidelines on record keeping: These should cover both paper and electronic communications and documentation. Standard formats and logs for recording: a. interviews/statements; b. information gathered through briefings and during meetings; c. Documentation, such as reports, copies of statements taken by other organizations, photos, videos, collected or received by the commission/mission, including during field visits. Field missions templates: A mission planning template will ensure that all the essential issues are covered during the planning of investigative field visits. Glossary of terms: it may be necessary to draw up a glossary of terms to ensure consistency in the spelling of place names, reference to entities (e.g., State security institutions) and terminology used in reports, especially if the language of the country is different from the commission’s/mission’s working language. The glossary should also include the terms in the language of the country. OHCHR investigating a guerrilla attack on an indigenous town in Colombia. 66 UN / OHCHR Photo COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY AND FACT-FINDING MISSIONS ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW