MONITORING PLACES OF DETENTION : A PRACTICAL GUIDE 58 Africa, consultation and cooperation with the Sub-Committee will be easier. The OPCAT also specifies that “the provisions of the Protocol shall not affect the obligations of States Parties to the four Geneva Conventions nor the opportunity available to any State Party to authorise the ICRC to visit places of detention in situations not covered by international humanitarian law.” The future Sub-Committee and the ICRC will have to find ways of establishing contact, as is already being done in Europe between the CPT and the ICRC. Further reading Association for the Prevention of Torture, Visiting Places of Detention: Practices and Lessons Learned by Selected Domestic Institutions, seminar report, Geneva, 2004. Association for the Prevention of Torture, The Impact of External Visiting of Police Stations on Prevention of Torture and Ill-Treatment, Study, Geneva, 1999. Association for the Prevention of Torture, Standard Operating Procedures of International Mechanisms Carrying Out Visits to Places of Detention, seminar report, Geneva, 1997. On OPCAT Association for the Prevention of Torture, The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: A Manual for Prevention, Geneva, 2004. Association for the Prevention of Torture, Implementation of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture, The Establishment and 13 13th general report on the CPT’s activities, covering the period 1 January 2002 to 31 July 2003, CPT/Inf (2003)35, §22