Should NPMs publish their visit reports? Although the OPCAT is silent on the publication of NPM reports, it is recommended to do so. Public reports contribute to making issues known to all interested stakeholders- including relatives of detainees and the wider public, and to enhancing the States accountability, and NPM’s legitimacy and visibility. In its NPM assessment tool, the SPT notably mentions that “Visit reports, including recommendations, should, in principle, be published. Exceptions may exist where the national preventive mechanism considers it inappropriate to do so or where there is a legal impediment.” As highlighted by the SPT, it is in any case the NPM’s sovereign decision to publish its reports or not. Should visit reports be translated? Visit reports should be available in all official languages of the NPM’s country. It is important, when relevant, to also make them available in existing minority languages. In addition, having some key visit reports available and translated into English is useful to making them available to the international community of torture prevention bodies and practitioners; however it is understandable that the NPM’s often limited resources, in terms of time and resources, may not make that possible. 22 NPM Toolkit for Asia Pacific NPM-NHRIs