MONITORING PLACES OF DETENTION : A PRACTICAL GUIDE 56 Information and reports from domestic visiting bodies can also be sent to other relevant UN bodies, as well as to regional human rights mechanisms: UN BODIES Special procedures under the UN Human Rights Commission Special Rapporteur on Torture ■ Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judiciary ■ Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions ■ Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders ■ ■ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention UN TREATY BODIES Committee on Human Rights ■ ■ Committee against Torture ■ Committee on the Rights of the Child ■ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women ■ Other thematic bodies, depending on the issue (for example, Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) UN SPECIALISED AGENCIES ■ UN High Commissioner for Refugees (particularly programmes for the protection of refugees and internally displaced people) ■ United Nations Development Programme (particularly judicial reform programmes) ■ UNICEF (particularly women and children in detention programme)

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