 The CPTA Secretariat should be strengthened with a staff member dedicated to the fulfillment of the CPTA mandate and States should assist by sending seconded staff with expertise to assist the CPTA’s work.  The CPTA should encourage States Parties to establish national mechanisms for effective rehabilitation of torture victims, including mainstreaming medical and social treatment within its public health delivery services as well as supporting independent centres providing psychosocial rehabilitation /trauma counseling. Therefore, we participants commit ourselves to the promotion and implementation of this Declaration and Plan of Action by serving as focal points for the CPTA in our respective countries. Done in Johannesburg on 23rd August 2012