2. Press general human rights violations. This database contains general human rights violations from the press as mentioned above. 3. Unreported politically motivated violations of human rights. This database contains information that has not been reported in the public domain or information that has been reported in the public domain but is also gathered from primary sources of information. This involves victims coming to report to the forum in order to get free legal assistance and also victims reporting to partner and member organizations in order to get some free assistance including counselling, medical assistance etc 4. The last database is one for unreported general human rights violations. This database contains all the other human rights violations as mentioned in 3 above but violations that are not politically motivated. The information in the databases is used for compiling the Monthly Political Violence Report (MPVR), which will be discussed below. The information is also used to furnish international lawyers with information on asylum cases as well as for donors, diplomats, partner and member organizations as well as interested individuals as and when sought. It is also hoped that the same databases would be used in the event of a transition for transitional justice purposes in terms of truth seeking, Truth Commission and possible prosecutions. The information has also been used for other special and ad hoc reports as well as for litigation purposes. Even though this system should be both an effective and efficient way of gathering data and utilizing the data, there have been problems on the implementation of the system. There have been problems in 2006, in data collection due to misunderstandings and outright territoriality on the parts of some partner and member organizations. The problems have led to the information being collected not being as far reaching as was hoped and also in the delay in publishing the MPVRs. The Research Unit, with the help of the Executive Director has on countless occasions in the year tried to resolve these 4