and systematic surveillance against any practice of torture and ill treatment. 195.Based on this understanding, Brazil has developed public policies for the institutionalization of monitoring structures of facilities where there is deprivation of liberty, as well as enhanced the mechanisms of receiving complaints and empowering victims. Examples of this advancement are the creation of the National System for Preventing and Combating Torture and the work of the National Human Rights Ombudsman Office. 196.The Brazilian democracy has achieved a legal and institutional framework that vehemently prohibits torture. There are State structures permanently mobilized to receive and investigate complaints, to oversee institutions and to promote a social conscience of repudiation to torture. In face of these guarantees, besides the persistent challenges, Brazil has mobilized resources and carried out actions to decrease the prison deficit, to enhance the infrastructure of facilities where there is deprivation of liberty, to ensure and improve the access to justice, to better qualify the human resources in the whole justice system, as well as to promote the education for a culture of peace, citizenship and human rights. 197.In this diligent work, we look forward to fighting torture not only in its obvious manifestations, but also in any practice of subjection of citizens to inhumane and degrading conditions. The human dignity must be protected and defended inside all institutions, no matter the reasons that produced the internment or deprivation of liberty. 198.Brazil recognizes its historical and structural challenges to be overcome, but the country emphasizes its important achievements for a paradigmatic State and societal change toward a zero tolerance position regarding torture. This report is a milestone in this process; it is the result of a government effort that involved numerous agencies of the Federal and State Governments and of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office, the National Council of Justice, and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office for Human Rights. 199The series of policies and actions presented herein is a concrete evidence of the Brazilian State firm and unwavering commitment to prevent and combat all forms of torture. Moreover, the publication of the recommendations made by the SPT shall allow the challenges to be treated with transparency, cooperation and a constructive spirit, aiming at the full realization of human rights in Brazil, based on international cooperation and on a fruitful dialogue with the civil society. 200.Through the present report to the SPT, the Brazilian State also reaffirms its commitment to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984), as well as to its Additional Protocol (2005) and its Fund (2007), to which the State intends to elaborate a proposal in order to facilitate the implementation of the received recommendations. The SPT has an important mission to accomplish, and this dialogue, to which the BrazilianState is open, is fundamental for the consolidation of human rights and for combating their violation worldwide.