A/HRC/16/52 41. The Special Rapporteur will also engage with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Health Organization to help facilitate the integration of a humanrights approach into drug-use prevention, treatment and managed care, not only in detention centres, but also with regard to vulnerable groups in which persons may be deprived of their liberty, including in relation to the physically challenged, persons with intellectual disability and the terminally ill. 42. The Special Rapporteur looks forward to working with regional bodies, such as the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT); the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Africa; the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and other relevant bodies, to further strengthen international and regional standards on the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 43. The methods of work4 of the Special Rapporteur on Torture require that the Special Rapporteur maintain contact and, where appropriate, engage in consultation with related bodies and mechanisms of the United Nations human rights machinery, including the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (E/CN.4/1997/7, Annex, paragraph 10). The Special Rapporteur considers the Fund of great importance to the work of nongovernmental organizations that provide humanitarian assistance to victims of torture and members of their family. In that respect, the Special Rapporteur will continue to work closely with the Fund with a view to complementing his victim-centred approach and ensuring victims are included in judicial processes and have access to appropriate remedies and reparation. 44. The Special Rapporteur, as did his predecessors, urges Governments and other donor organisations to support the work of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture through financial and other means so as to enable it to continue providing appropriate assistance to organizations working to meet the psychological, medical, social, legal and economic needs of victims and survivors of torture. 45. Given the special emphasis that international law places on prosecuting crimes of torture, the Special Rapporteur looks forward to working closely with the International Criminal Court and other international tribunals of criminal justice, while respecting the respective spheres of those bodies. He also hopes to encourage States to ensure that torture is enshrined as a criminal offence in domestic legislation and hence subject to prosecution, as provided for under article 4 of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter “the Convention”), and to disseminate such actions as “best practices” where they are effective and respect fair trial guarantees. The Special Rapporteur strongly believes that, in this context, the threat of prosecution and punishment can serve a very effective preventive purpose. B. Country visit methodology 46. The Special Rapporteur wholly embraces, and reiterates the importance of, strict adherence to the methods of work established and refined under previous mandate holders5. 4 5 10 See E/CN.4/1997/7, Annex, approved by the Commission in resolution 2001/62 (E/CN.4/RES/2001/62), paragraph 30. See E/CN.4/2006/6, paragraphs 20-27.