commission’s/mission’s work and all photographs, videos and other digital information. • An electronic information storage device including all information on the webbased platform, as well as all e-mails sent to or received from the commission/ mission e-mail address, including an audit trail of who accessed what information when. This device shall eventually be handed over to the United Nations archives along with the paper collection. • A paper collection of all information considered of archival value, printed out for eventual storage in the United Nations archives. This paper collection shall constitute the official records of the commission/mission and it is therefore critical that all relevant information should be printed out and filed. The paper collection must also include records of all interviews conducted; photographs considered key to the findings; all original documents; all official records of the commission/ mission; e-mails sent from or received by the commission/mission e-mail address; and any administrative records of archival value. On the completion of the work of the commission/mission, each staff member shall be responsible for managing the information he or she has gathered and produced. An archivist/data management officer or designated staff member shall oversee and advise on all issues pertaining to information management and storage with a view to ensuring, among other things, that all data are security-classified and that records of archival value have been created. The printed information and records and the electronic copies are stored at the United Nations Archives in Geneva or the United Nations Secretariat Archives in New York, as appropriate. J. Protection of victims, witnesses, sources and other cooperating persons OHCHR has developed operational guidelines for the protection of persons cooperating with commissions/missions, including victims, witnesses and other sources of information, as well as persons facilitating the commission’s/mission’s work in other ways, based on the experience and lessons drawn from previous commissions/missions. They are recommended for use by members and secretariat staff involved in collecting, handling and processing information before, during and after their activities. 74 COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY AND FACT-FINDING MISSIONS ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW

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