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(c) Cooperate, for the prevention of torture in general, with the relevant United Nations organs and
mechanisms as well as with the international, regional and national institutions or organizations working
towards the strengthening of the protection of all persons against torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 12
In order to enable the Subcommittee on Prevention to comply with its mandate as laid down in article
11, the States Parties undertake:
(a) To receive the Subcommittee on Prevention in their territory and grant it access to the places of
detention as defined in article 4 of the present Protocol;
(b) To provide all relevant information the Subcommittee on Prevention may request to evaluate the
needs and measures that should be adopted to strengthen the protection of persons deprived of their
liberty against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
(c) To encourage and facilitate contacts between the Subcommittee on Prevention and the national
preventive mechanisms;
(d) To examine the recommendations of the Subcommittee on Prevention and enter into dialogue with
it on possible implementation measures.
Article 13
1. The Subcommittee on Prevention shall establish, at first by lot, a programme of regular visits to the
States Parties in order to fulfil its mandate as established in article 11.
2. After consultations, the Subcommittee on Prevention shall notify the States Parties of its programme
in order that they may, without delay, make the necessary practical arrangements for the visits to be
conducted.
3. The visits shall be conducted by at least two members of the Subcommittee on Prevention. These
members may be accompanied, if needed, by experts of demonstrated professional experience and
knowledge in the fields covered by the present Protocol who shall be selected from a roster of experts
prepared on the basis of proposals made by the States Parties, the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention. In
preparing the roster, the States Parties concerned shall propose no more than five national experts.
The State Party concerned may oppose the inclusion of a specific expert in the visit, whereupon the
Subcommittee on Prevention shall propose another expert.
4. If the Subcommittee on Prevention considers it appropriate, it may propose a short follow-up visit
after a regular visit.
Article 14
1. In order to enable the Subcommittee on Prevention to fulfil its mandate, the States Parties to the
present Protocol undertake to grant it:
(a) Unrestricted access to all information concerning the number of persons deprived of their liberty
in places of detention as defined in article 4, as well as the number of places and their location;
(b) Unrestricted access to all information referring to the treatment of those persons as well as their
conditions of detention;
(c) Subject to paragraph 2 below, unrestricted access to all places of detention and their installations
and facilities;
(d) The opportunity to have private interviews with the persons deprived of their liberty without
witnesses, either personally or with a translator if deemed necessary, as well as with any other person
who the Subcommittee on Prevention believes may supply relevant information;
(e) The liberty to choose the places it wants to visit and the persons it wants to interview.
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