17.06.2025

A SURVIVOR-CENTRED APPROACH TO DOCUMENTATION FOR CRIMINAL ACCOUNTABILITY

In recent years, civil society-led accountability initiatives have multiplied, leading to the development of new survivor-centred practices. This practice note identifies key principles in adopting a survivor-centred approach to documentation of torture and other serious international crimes, demonstrates how these can be implemented at various stages in the process of documentation by civil society organisations for the purpose of criminal accountability, and presents both lessons learnt and good practices.