A/HRC/20/14 be made, where appropriate, for joint legal presentation; (iv) victims and their families should enjoy the right to free interpretation. (f) Where a decision is taken not to initiate a criminal prosecution the competent prosecuting authority should give reasons for its decision, and States should allow victims of terrorism the opportunity to challenge the decision before an independent court or tribunal, or other comparable authority. (g) Where victims of terrorism have given information to the authorities, or are called upon to provide testimony during a prosecution, their rights to life, physical security and privacy must be fully protected, subject to safeguards to ensure that any protective measures adopted are compatible with the accused person's right to a fair and public hearing under article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. (h) Criminal proceedings, including the exhaustion of any ordinary appeal procedures, should be conducted with reasonable expedition. (i) The right of victims of terrorism to privacy and respect for their family life should be protected against unjustified intrusion by the media. Personal information must also be protected against unnecessary disclosure to the public in the course of judicial proceedings. (j) Victims of terrorism have the right to form representative organizations whose rights to freedom of association and expression must be fully guaranteed. Where any restriction is imposed, such organizations should have unimpeded access to an independent and impartial court or tribunal with power to overturn the restriction. In addition, States are under a positive duty to secure the rights of such organizations against reprisals or other forms of unlawful interference by non-State actors. (k) Where a public official is directly or indirectly responsible for a violation of the right to life in the context of an act or threatened act of terrorism, the State is already bound as a matter of international law to make reparation to the victim. (l) The Special Rapporteur urges all States to recognize an international obligation (already recognized by many States) to provide reparation where death or serious injury results from an act of terrorism committed on their territory. Full and effective reparation should include, as appropriate, restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition. Reparation schemes should make provision for financial compensation and a considered programme of medical and social rehabilitation. (m) States should actively consider whether to legislate to prohibit the sale or marketing of life insurance policies that contain a exclusion for deaths resulting from acts of terrorism. (n) The Special Rapporteur urges States involved in unresolved conflicts in which one or more parties to the conflict are designated as a terrorist organization, and where acts of violence are committed against the civilian population, to make greater use of the United Nations mechanisms for conflict prevention, negotiation, mediation, conciliation, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. 68. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) commission empirical research into the question of whether and to what extent economic, social, political and educational exclusion should be recognized by the General Assembly as conditions conducive to the spread 20