CAT/OP/BRA/2/Add.1 Mato Grosso, Pará, Paraná, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Río de Janeiro, Río Grande do Norte, Río Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, São Paulo and Tocantins. The event, which brought together institutions, officials and local and national political figures, not only enabled participants to share their experiences but, most importantly, led to the establishment of policy guidelines on (i) community-based initiatives; (ii) transparency and public accountability; (iii) the monitoring of complaints; and (iv) visits to places of deprivation of liberty. The following themes were also discussed: (i) preventing and combating torture in Brazil; (ii) the National System for the Prevention of Torture; (iii) reporting and the importance of data collection; (iv) places of deprivation of liberty: characteristics and strategies; and lastly, (v) complaints procedure: claims, forms, referrals and monitoring;9 (d) A seminar on protecting Brazilians against torture, run by the Human Rights Secretariat of the Office of the President in Porto Velho with the Rondônia State Court of Justice and Public Prosecution Service was held at the Court on 11–12 April 2013 and attracted 107 participants to its five presentations and two workshops. The same event was staged in Porto Alegre, with the support of the Río Grande do Sul State Public Prosecution Service, on 1–2 July 2013. Around 40 legal professionals and civil society representatives took part. 37. The Human Rights Secretariat of the Office of the President also uses posters to promote the prohibition of torture as part of its Torture: a Crime against Humanity Yesterday, Today, Always campaign of August 2013. As part of the campaign, the Human Rights Secretariat of the Office of the President sent out posters to state human rights secretariats for distribution in places of detention.10 Posters were also sent out to the human rights commissions in state branches of the Brazilian Bar Association, centres for children and adolescents in the states, and state anti-torture committees, mechanisms and human rights councils. 38. With regard to complaints mechanisms, it is worth noting in particular the Dial Human Rights, Dial 100 hotline run by the Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office of the Human Rights Secretariat of the Office of the President, as reported in Brazil’s first report to the Subcommittee.11 On 1 March 2013, the Office launched a new Dial 100 function that has proved to be quite an effective mechanism for receiving reports of human rights violations for subsequent referral to the competent authorities, including complaints of torture in situations and places of detention. Dial 100 telephone calls are free of charge, the switchboard operates 24 hours a day and callers need not identify themselves. Between 1 March and 31 December 2013, 1,525 complaints of cases of torture or cruel, inhuman or 9 10 11 10 At this event, the Human Rights Secretariat of the Office of the President provided audiovisual material, including audio presentations, thematic studies and official documents of interest to the state committees and mechanisms. The latter included the Subcommittee’s first report and Brazil’s replies. This initiative went part of the way to implementing a recommendation made by the Subcommittee in its second report: “... whether Ombudsmen, judges, local NGOs and other relevant entities such as the regional preventive mechanisms were also notified and sent copies of the Report, and if so, to whom and how was this information sent or disseminated” (CAT/OP/BRA/2, para. 19 (d)). In accordance with article 3, paragraph II, of Act No. 12847/2013, places of deprivation of liberty are defined as public or private premises, which inmates cannot leave independently or freely, and include long-term internment facilities, detention centres, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, short-term detention centres, socio-educational institutions for adolescents in conflict with the law and military disciplinary detention centres, such as facilities run by the bodies listed under article 61 of Act No. 7210, of 11 July 1984. See CAT/OP/BRA/1/Add.1, paras. 170–174. GE.14-42059