DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL (DCI) - Belgium | Practical Guide After each visit, a report is sent to the State concerned containing the CPT’s findings and recommendations to which the State must respond in details. Visits are based on the CPT Standards which include a specific section on juveniles deprived of their liberty 4. Both the report and the response are kept confidential until the State decides to authorise the publication. The Council of Europe Commissioner For Human Rights Within its mandate, the Commissioner carries out visits to all Member States to monitor and evaluate the human rights situation. In the course of such visits, he meets with the highest representatives of government, parliament, the judiciary, civil society and national human rights structures. He also talks to ordinary people with human rights concerns, and visits places of human rights relevance, including prisons, psychiatric hospitals, centres for asylum seekers, schools, etc. Following the visits, a report or a letter may be addressed to the authorities of the country concerned containing an assessment of the human rights situation and recommendations on how to overcome shortcomings in law and practice. The Commissioner also conducts thematic work on subjects central to the protection of human rights in Europe. He provides advice and information on the prevention of human rights violations and releases opinions, Issue Papers and reports. He has notably issued a position paper on Children’s Rights (2010) and two issues papers on the matters of children and juvenile justice (2009) and on children and corporal punishment (2008) 5. 4  9th General Report on the CPT’s Activities 1998; 24th General Report 2015 5  The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Positions on children’s rights (CommDH/PositionPaper(2010)1), Strasbourg, 3 May 2010; Children and juvenile justice: proposals for improvements (2009); Children and corporal punishment: “The right not to be hit, also a children’s right” (2008) 42