MONITORING PLACES OF DETENTION : A PRACTICAL GUIDE 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, the APT would like to thank the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) for agreeing to let us publish this guide as an update of our earlier joint publication “Monitoring places of detention: a practical guide for NGOs” (Geneva, December 2002). We thank Ms Annette Corbaz, who wrote the earlier guide. The updated draft was discussed during an expert meeting held in Geneva on 20 October 2003 and we would like to thank the following experts who participated in the meeting: Mr Paul English (Penal Reform International), Ms Mary Murphy, member of a UK independent prison monitoring board and former Amnesty International researcher , Mr André Picot, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mr Jean-Pierre Restellini, member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), Ms Margaret Sekaggya, Chair of the Uganda Human Rights Commission and Mr Morris Tidball-Binz, Human Rights Defenders Office of the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR). Their fruitful and relevant comments on the draft were essential contributions for the final version of this guide. The APT would also like to thank the following persons and institutions: the “Instituto de estudios comparados en ciencias penales y sociales” de Argentina, Ms Maria Noel Rodriguez, of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN OHCHR) Office of Colombia, and Dr Andrew Coyle, Director of the International Centre for Prison Studies, for their useful written comments on the draft. Ms Mary Murphy did a wonderful job in proof reading and correcting the final version. Our acknowledgements also go to Mr Theo van Boven, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture who agreed to write the foreword to this publication. Finally, this guide could not have been published without the generous financial support of our donors.