prevention among peer support groups for both prisoners and prison staffs? Ms. Verma stated that there should be some guidelines developed by some treaty bodies or the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and WHO. Mr. Tanaka responded that recently, his colleagues in UNODC headquarters office, Vienna were engaged in discussions on how to address mental health issues. As far as he could recall, the materials regarding mental health issues and best practices will be developed in the near future. XI. Mr. Mohan, Legal Aids Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in his question stated that there is another category of individuals in prison other than men, women, and transgenders. He specifically referred to children of inmates because there are foreign prisoners in prisons where they do not have relatives in Malaysia. When they are pregnant and deliver their babies while in custody or while serving their sentences, they tend to keep their babies with them because they cannot send them to the Welfare Department and their babies need breastfeeding. How these rules govern or take care of the welfare of those children who are not supposed to be deprived of their liberty. How do those rules address this matter? According to Mr.Tanaka, there are specific provisions in the Bangkok Rules about pregnant women and mothers who breastfeed their babies in prison. Rule 48 stipulates that, pregnant women prisoners who are breastfeeding shall receive advice on their health and diet. Their health program shall be monitored by a qualified healthcare practitioner. They are eligible to adequate and timely food and healthy environment and regular exercise opportunities shall be provided free of charge for pregnant women prisoners, their babies, and breastfeeding mothers. Mothers who are breastfeeding are not encouraged to be separated from their babies unless they are required to do so. Ms. Verma highlighted about the transparency in terms or the lack of data because children whose parents are detained or imprisoned are often invisible and highly vulnerable group. The challenge here is that there are professionals in prison facilities who may not be properly qualified to deal with the needs of children in detention together with their mother, family member or primary caregiver. There is perhaps, at the national level a need to conduct research of if there are some studies available to identify exactly the needs and challenges in dealing with children in detention. While there is the Mandela Rules, Ms. Verma personally thinks that a national specific guideline that are also outlined in the Child Rights Convention on protection of children could be referred as they echo the concerns that are raised in the Mandela Rules but that is an added international standard that can be referred to by relevant stakeholders. 39