to policy are increasingly being clarified.4 The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has a wealth of institutional experience in human rights field investigations where the identification of allegedly responsible individuals is a regular feature. Members of the Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar interview a child in a refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. UN / OHCHR Photo For example, with regard to the public revelation of names, the general policy has evolved to the point where this is only rarely done. Compare that to practice in 1984 when the Commission on Human Rights was invited by the General Assembly to generate and publish a list of individuals believed to be responsible for the crime of apartheid. See Bertrand G. Ramcharan, Protection Roles of United Nations Human Rights Procedures, Leiden/Boston (2009), p. 130. The list published in 1984 contained the names of over three hundred persons deemed responsible for the crime of apartheid. Ibid., note 167 (citing United Nations Doc A/CN.4/1984/8). Now, in place of public naming, practice includes handing over dossiers or “confidential lists” to the Secretary-General or the High Commissioner for safekeeping at the close of a mandate. 4 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 11

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