The CGLPL has continued its traditionally active efforts on the international scene, especially with an intervention before the UN Committee against Torture which, this year, conducted a periodic examination of France. It also took part in a range of training initiatives, not least at the first summer university for French-speaking national preventive mechanisms. Lastly, the institution has pushed on with its internal modernisation work by enriching its information system, introducing oversight guides and improving training for its members. It also set up a scientific committee which it convened for its first meeting. 2017 will mark 10 years since the Act of 30 October 2007 which founded the Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté. Of course, we will celebrate this milestone. Not as a show of our own personal satisfaction, which would be inappropriate in such worrying times, but together with all those who share our belief that inequality, injustice and suffering are not irreversible and that an institution such as ours must contribute, through its unflagging efforts, to ensuring that the rights of people deprived of their liberty are respected. But if these people are to be heard, then we, the CGLPL, must also be heard. It is vital that the public authorities become more familiar with and show more respect for the steadfast mission that our team has been accomplishing from the outset in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, custodial premises, detention centres, institutions for minors and other places, so that direct lessons can be learned from them and action taken accordingly. Fortunately, there are some examples of this being the case. But more needs to be done. In troubled times, the temptation to brush aside respect, protection and improvement of fundamental rights is strong. And this is a slippery slope. It must not be succumbed to. I will not succumb. Adeline Hazan 13