A/HRC/34/16 Annex Special Fund established by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: projects approved by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Grants Committee since the establishment of the Fund Year of project Grant amount (United States dollars) State Project summary Implementing entity 1. Armenia Strengthening of the national preventive mechanism Penal Reform International 2016 25 000.00 2. Argentina Legal reform towards the establishment of the state preventive mechanism in Tucumán and training of judges, penitentiary officers and social workers on the rights of detainees Abogados y Abogadas 2015 del Noroeste Argentino en Derechos Humanos y Estudios Sociales 35 000.00 3. Benin Implementation of the recommendations of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment concerning the protection of children deprived of their liberty World Organization 2012 against Torture in partnership with Enfants solidaires d’Afrique et du monde 19 539.00 4. Benin Implementation of Subcommittee recommendations concerning the protection of children deprived of their liberty in Benin World Organization 2013 against Torture in partnership with Enfants solidaires d’Afrique et du monde 44 428.00 5. Benin Informing detainees of their fundamental rights and reducing overpopulation in places of detention through improved identification of cases of arbitrary detention by State actors and civil society International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT) 2014 35 000.00 6. Benin Improving detention conditions of children World Organization deprived of their liberty in penitentiary against Torture institutions as well as in police and gendarmerie facilities. Training of juvenile justice judges to be recruited for the newly established child-friendly courts as provided by the revised Children’s Code 2016 15 820.00 7. Brazil Implementation of Subcommittee recommendations concerning the protection of children deprived of their liberty in Brazil 2014 34 802.00 World Organization against Torture in partnership with Justiça Global 7