• Increasing the political and social costs to the source of the threat through, for instance, public advocacy in partnership with national and international networks; • Strengthening the cooperating person’s capacity for self-protection; • Seeking the support of the mandating authority and of relevant partners and international mechanisms, such as international NGOs, diplomatic missions, United Nations agencies, missions or special procedures; • Mobilizing efforts to directly or indirectly provide physical protection to the person at risk, including through relocation; • Limiting the capacity of the source of the threat to carry out an attack by addressing factors that make the person vulnerable; • Intervening to influence or affect the behaviour/attitude of the source of the threat; • Requesting an influential person, for example, a religious, community, political or civil society leader, to intervene with the source of the threat. In consultation with the person at risk, the commission/mission should devise a protection strategy that maps appropriate protective options and defines a course of action with measures that should be taken in parallel and those that should follow a sequence. Following completion of the work, the mandating body should keep under review the situation of persons who have cooperated with the commission/mission, and who could be subject to reprisals for this reason, or other risks. K. Public information and the media The public, especially in the countries concerned, has a legitimate interest in being informed of the commission/mission and its work. It is also in the interest of the commission/ mission to make information available on its existence, its mandate, its methods of work and especially how it can be contacted by people wishing to submit information. The commission/mission will have to determine its public information and media strategy at the start of its work, specifying to what extent it will be public about its work. In some cases it might be useful to adopt a low-key position, while others will call for a more public stance. 1. WHO DEALS WITH PUBLIC INFORMATION AND THE MEDIA? Depending on the context, information on the commission/mission may be provided to the public and the media by: the members themselves (within the framework of their rules of procedure or agreed methods of work); the coordinator of the secretariat; or the body 82 COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY AND FACT-FINDING MISSIONS ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW