MONITORING PLACES OF DETENTION : A PRACTICAL GUIDE 57 Regional organisations In the Americas: ■ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights In Africa: ■ African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (in particular its Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention in Africa) In Europe: ■ Council of Europe (in particular the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)) ■ OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) 4.3 Coordination between international visiting bodies International visiting bodies are sometimes bound by strict rules of confidentiality that may limit the possibilities for coordination. They should, however, consult. In the OPCAT, coordination between the Sub-Committee and existing regional visiting mechanisms is foreseen in Article 31, which encourages them “to consult and cooperate with a view to avoid duplication”. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) made a proposal for States which are parties to both the OPCAT and the ECPT to agree “that visit reports drawn up by the CPT in respect of their countries, and their responses, be systematically forwarded to the Sub-Committee on a confidential basis. In this way, consultations could be held in the light of all relevant facts”13. Where the reports are made public, which is the case for country reports of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Special Rapporteur on Prisons and Conditions of Detention in