APPENDIX 2: MISSION - TERMS OF REFERENCE. During investigation missions of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, mission members shall have the following principles and guarantees, which shall be obligatory for the state party that has invited the Committee or agreed to the mission: 1. Freedom of movement on the whole territory of the country concerned and free access to all venues indicated on the mission programme. 2. Freedom of investigation, particularly as regards: (i) contacts with central and decentralized authorities of all government sectors; (ii) contacts with representatives of non-governmental organizations of the rights and welfare of the child, other private institutions and the media; (iii) access to all institutions that host children, including detention and rehabilitation centres; (iv) confidentiality of contacts and discussions with witnesses and other private in- terlocutors, including victimized children and their families and children deprived of freedom;’ (v) free access to all documents needed for carrying out the mission’s mandate and preparing the report. 3. Assurance by the government that no child, public or private person who has been in contact with one of the mission members as part of its mandate, shall, for that reason, be victim of harassment, retaliation or subjected to legal procedure; 4. Assurance by the government that appropriate security measures shall be taken, without however restricting the freedom of movement of mission members mentioned above; 5. Assurance that all the guarantees and facilities shall be extended to the African Union 16