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OHCHR Field Manual

Definition

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Field Manual on Human Rights Monitoring. Provides operational guidance for human rights monitoring in complex and potentially dangerous environments, including documentation of grave sites and protection of sources.

Publisher
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Focus
Human rights monitoring in complex, dangerous settings
Covers
Grave site documentation, source protection

Common questions

Who typically uses the OHCHR field manual?+

Human rights monitors, UN field missions, and forensic teams working alongside them in conflict or post-conflict environments where standard evidentiary protocols must be adapted to security constraints.

How does it relate to forensic exhumation work?+

It sets operational guidance for approaching mass or clandestine grave sites safely and for handling witness identities carefully, which forensic teams follow alongside their own scientific protocols for recovery and identification.

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