A/77/502 18. The Special Rapporteur, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 43/20, will put the rights of victims and survivors, as well as their families, centre stage, including their right to speak and to be heard, to participate in decisions affecting them, to rehabilitation and to a remedy. She will integrate a gender perspective and apply feminist techniques and methods, the basic premise of which is inclusiveness and equality, which can be helpfully transferable to other minority, marginalized, disadvantaged or underrepresented groups. She will work with Governments to adopt a whole-of-government approach such that policies, actions and solutions are coordinated and integrated across departments. Her programme of work will tackle root causes and be prevention- and justice-oriented. 19. Country visits. The country visits of the Special Rapporteur will be made up of constructive dialogue and will provide an opportunity for States to showcase some of their good laws, practices and innovations where progress has been made, as well as, importantly, to discuss and enquire into difficult areas where advice and guidance are particularly sought. The goal is to support the Governments visited to change and adjust their practices, drawing on best international practices and guided by international standards. She expects open and unhindered access to relevant ministries, as well as national human rights institutions, independent investigative bodies, national prevention mechanisms and the like, civil society, academia, victims and survivors, persons deprived of their liberty and their representatives and advocates. 20. Communications. The Special Rapporteur requests the cooperation of States with her mandate in responding in a timely manner to urgent appeals and other allegations of torture or ill-treatment (see A/HRC/46/26). Given the large demand by alleged victims for action and the associated heavy workload, there is a consequent need for streamlining and prioritizing. Although the Special Rapporteur is not a responder of last resort, as neither domestic nor international avenues of redress need to have been exhausted prior to seeking support from the mandate, she has a preference for following up on emblematic urgent actions or allegations that can support, encourage or catalyse institutional or structural changes, so that all victims, as well as society as a whole, can benefit from her interventions. In this respect, emblematic cases are those that form part of a pattern, trend or system -wide challenge. Such communications do not need to be the most extreme cases but can entail evidence of everyday patterns of common abuse or deprivation that need remedying and would benefit from the Special Rapporteur’s intervention. 21. Reports. The reports of the Special Rapporteur will bring into sharp focus issues of the day and of the future and will be oriented to showcasing g ood practices in order to share and learn from others’ experiences, enriching our international brain trust of solutions, while also recapping and raising the alarm on negative practices and trends. Reports and recommendations will be accessible, practical and implementable, with the hope that her reports (or parts thereof) will be transmitted directly to front -line ministries and functionaries. The next two reports 7 of the Special Rapporteur will focus on: (a) Good practices in national criminalization, investigation, prosecution and sentencing for offences of torture, and remedies for victims, covering both common criminal and military contexts; (b) Good practices in community-oriented, representative and accountable police and other law enforcement. __________________ 7 22-22673 To the Human Rights Council at its fifty-second session and to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session, in March and October 2023, respectively. 7/17