CAT/OP/MEX/1/Add.2 of training activities for the centre’s administrative and custodial personnel and also the drafting of internal regulations for the centre; • The Federal District government, following its revision and updating of manuals and protocols on visits and procedures, including methodologies for the use of progress indicators in the area of torture prevention, has introduced arrangements for female inmates living with their children in prison, initiated the establishment of monitoring procedures or mechanisms for following up complaints of torture, promoted training and specialized instruction programmes for prison security personnel on topics that include a human rights policy element, devised broad-based awareness campaigns on torture prevention and information campaigns on how and where to report cases of torture, undertaken initiatives with a view to improving prison record systems, including the documentation of physical examinations of inmates, and improved physical conditions in prisons; • Training projects have been undertaken by the government of Mexico state on implementing the Istanbul Protocol at places of detention and on facilitating channels of communication with parents of juvenile offenders held at the Quinta del Bosque centre. With regard to indigenous peoples’ right to the services of an interpreter during judicial, police and administrative procedures, the state government has strengthened the Public Defence Institute in order to provide better support for indigenous persons in criminal proceedings. The state government has also provided regular training and refresher courses for managerial, administrative and technical personnel and security and custody officers at detention facilities, the number of public servants trained in 2008 totalling 1,305 and in 2009 1,956; • The pursuit of measures by the Jalisco state government to improve state social rehabilitation centres, including the strengthening of medical services provided at such facilities and the organization of training initiatives on human rights and torture prevention for administrative and custodial personnel at the centres. 8. This second report aims to provide further details of progress achieved in torture prevention during the period from March 2011 to the present date, including aspects where challenges are to be overcome. 9. The report incorporates the most important developments in this area at the federal government level, providing information from the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Defence, among other institutions. It also contains information on the states visited by the Subcommittee in 2008 (the Federal District and states of Jalisco, Mexico, Nuevo León and Oaxaca). 10. The main national advances include the promulgation of the human rights constitutional reforms, the implementation of the reform of the criminal justice system, the adoption of the draft Victims Act by the Congress of the Union, the building of new prisons and the improvement of existing ones, and the provision of training for public servants on torture prevention. 11. Particularly noteworthy is the Senate’s adoption of amendments to the Federal Act on the Prevention and Punishment of Torture of 11 April 2012, whereby the title of the Act was changed in order to incorporate other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment. The concept of torture has thus been brought into line with the definition appearing in article 2 of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, except that, unlike in the wording of the Convention, the adjective “severe” qualifying acts of torture performed has been retained in the amended text. GE.13-41196 (EXT) 5