A/HRC/40/20 Year of project Grant amount (United States dollars) State Project summary Implementing entity 8. Benin Implementation of Subcommittee recommendations concerning the protection of children deprived of their liberty in Benin World Organization against 2013 Torture (non-governmental organization) in partnership with Enfants solidaires d’Afrique et du monde (local non-governmental organization) 44 428.00 9. 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 2014 35 000.00 10. Benin Improving detention conditions of World Organization against children deprived of their liberty in Torture (non-governmental penitentiary institutions as well as organization) in police and gendarmerie facilities. Training of juvenile justice judges to be recruited for the newly established childfriendly courts as provided by the revised Children’s Code 2016 15 820.00 11. Benin Advocacy and road map for the establishment of a national preventive mechanism in Benin Changement social Bénin 2019 19 884.00 12. Brazil Implementation of Subcommittee recommendations concerning the protection of children deprived of their liberty in Brazil World Organization against Torture (non-governmental organization) in partnership with Justiça Global (local nongovernmental organization) 2014 34 802.00 13. Brazil Supporting the Rio de Janeiro preventive mechanism and promoting the establishment of torture preventive mechanisms in other states of Brazil Justiça Global (in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro preventive mechanism) 2015 35 000.00 14. Brazil Supporting the work of the federal Associaçao Direitos Humanos em 2016 preventive mechanism and Rede (Conectas) advocating for the establishment of state preventive mechanisms in São Paolo and Maranhão 25 000.00 15. Brazil Generating recommendations to the Conectas Human Rights National Justice Council; the São Paulo Public Security Department; organizing a workshop for legal practitioners about torture against women and their particular vulnerabilities; preparing an advocacy strategy for the establishment of a local preventive mechanism 25 000.00 2018 9