METHODOLOGICAL AND DATA
COLLECTION FRAMEW ORK
Who did what to whom, when where
and why?
• Minimum data requirement
• victim’s name (or alias in some
cases)
• status as an HRD/journalist/trade
unionist
• sex (M or F)
• age groups
• date of incident
• place/country/region of the
incident
• type of act (killing → other attacks
to be expanded gradually)
• perpetrator category
• motivation for the act
Data sources
• Global reporting: exclusively based on
publicly available information (open
source) from global and regional sources:
OHCHR, Special Procedures, Treaty Bodies,
UNESCO, ILO, regional mechanisms and
other relevant sources, including credible
NGOs
• National sources: NHRI, civil society
organizations, press reports, relevant law
enforcement, quasi-judicial and judicial
institutions
Verification standard
• Each factual element corroborated by at
least 2 independent and reliable sources
(minimum 3 sources)
• “there are reasonable grounds to believe
that incident concerning Victim X occurred
as described by the facts”