Monitors should also take a gender- and age-sensitive approach. Different 358 methodological approaches to interviewing and protecting women and children in the course of monitoring visits have been developed by others and should be 359 consulted in detail by monitors. Monitors should remain open to the possibility that they may need to conduct interviews through interpreters if no common language of communication is available. While the need to do so should not prove too challenging in most cases, issues relating to the confidentiality of such exchanges should be taken into consideration, and the interpreter should be 360 briefed accordingly. Written guidance is available on this key issue. Tips for monitors At the very least, monitors should have a defined strategy in place that takes into account the possibility of reprisals, along with steps to reduce their likelihood. The privacy and personal data of all interviewees, and particularly those of children, must be protected by monitors. This is particularly important in the context of VERLT where the disclosure of a person’s identity can have severe consequences, such as stigmatization and the risk of reprisals. This means that access to printed and electronic personal information should be restricted to the smallest number of people who need to know, and that no information or personal data may be made available or published without informed consent. Particularly with regard to children and the media, steps must be taken to ensure that nothing reveals or indirectly enables the disclosure of the child’s identity, including images, detailed descriptions of the child or the child’s family, names or addresses, audio and video records, etc. With regards to the use of photographs of children in detention, their identity should not be revealed in any circumstances. Accordingly, for example, faces should be obscured. 358 PRI & APT, Women in Detention: A Guide to Gender-Sensitive Monitoring, (London: PRI, 2015). 359 See for example: APT, Addressing Children’s Vulnerabilities In Detention – Jean-Jacques Gautier NPM Symposium 2014 Outcome Report (APT: Geneva, 2014) 7-8 and 21-21; Defence for Children International (DCI), “Monitoring Places where Children are Deprived of Liberty”, 2016; PRI, “Safeguarding Children in Detention: Independent Monitoring Mechanisms for Children in Detention in MENA”, 2011. 360 APT, Using Interpreters in Detention Monitoring: Briefing paper No. 3 ,(APT: Geneva, 2009). 75