– State Council for the Defense of Human Rights (CEDDH): ISER is one of the organizations that represent civil society in the State Council for the Defense of Human Rights, with participation in regular monthly meetings and in the Working Group Inter-American System and DHESCA, in the search for a Council that fulfills its institutional role and develops the political capacity to intervene in situations of human rights violations in Rio de Janeiro.
– State Committee to Combat and Prevent Torture: ISER also participates in the State Committee to Combat and Prevent Torture, as a representative of the CEDDH. The Committee is part of the System for Preventing and Combating Torture and was created pursuant to the UN Optional Protocol to Prevent Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment – OPCAT. We participate in the ordinary monthly meetings of the Committee and Working Groups. The committee's guidelines are to ensure the work of the State Mechanism for the Prevention and Combat of Torture, to disseminate good practices in preventing and combating torture, and to articulate inter-institutionally the implementation of the Mechanism's recommendations, through the establishment of public policies.
