and ill-treatment. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of the Guidelines encourage States to cooperate with the African Commission's Special Rapporteurs on prisons and conditions of detention in Africa; on arbitrary, summary and extrajudicial executions in Africa; and on the rights of women in Africa; as well as with the United Nations human rights treaty bodies and the thematic and country-specific special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights, in particular its Special Rapporteur on torture. 27