Place of the event Participants Description of event Organiser 22. 22 June 2015 Presiden- Human Rights tial Palace Ombudsman Vlasta Nussdorfer, and her Deputies, Ivan Šelih, Jernej Rovšek and mag. Kornelija Marzel Hand-over of the Annual Report of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia for 2014 and the Report of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2014 to Borut Pahor, President of the Republic of Slovenia. President of the Republic of Slovenia 23. 24 June 2015 Ljubljana Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman Attendance at the first meeting of the task force for renewing the organisation of forensic psychiatry in Slovenia (drafted in 2011). Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia 24. 26 June 2015 Skopje, Macedonia Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman A workshop entitled “The Situation and the Challenges with Illegal Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Macedonia – International Day in Support of Victims of Torture” took place within the EU Twinning Light Project. The monitoring of facilities with limited freedom of movement and centres for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers was discussed at the workshop. Macedonian Ombudsman in cooperation with the Austrian Ombudsman and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights 25. 28–29 June 2015 Tirana, Albania Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman, and Dr. Milan Popović, the NPM external expert Attendance at a workshop entitled Albanian “Health care access of people Ombudsman deprived from their liberty in the and APT, Geneva SEE region: Shortcomings and best practices observed while exercising the NPM mandate, with a focus on preventing ill-treatment during restraint and seclusion”. 26. 30 June 2015 At the pre- Vlasta Nussdorfer mises of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia Hand-over of the Annual Report of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia for 2014 and the Report of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2014 to Dr. Miro Cerar, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia 27. 30 June 2015 Klagenfurt, Austria One-day working visit to the National Preventive Mechanism of the Republic of Austria. The basic purpose of the visit was to exchange practical experience of implementing preventive visits. To this end, representatives of the NPM of the Republic of Austria conducted an unannounced visit to a prison in Klagenfurt in which members of the NPM of the Republic of Slovenia participated as observers. NPM Austria 248 Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman, and the Ombudsman’s advisers, Robert Gačnik and mag. Jure Markič ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM FOR 2015 Date Place of the event Participants Description of event Organiser 28. 1 July 2015 At the head office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia Human Rights Ombudsman Vlasta Nussdorfer, her Deputies, Ivan Šelih, Tone Dolčič and Jernej Rovšek, Martina Ocepek, Director of the Expert Service, and the Ombudsman’s advisers, Brigita Urh, Lili Jazbec, Gašper Adamič, Nataša Kuzmič and Liana Kalčina; representatives of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport: Minister Dr. Maja Makovec Brenčič, mag. Gregor Mohorčič, Iztok Žigon, mag. Polona Šoln Vrbinc, Dr. Erika Rustja and Sebastijan Magdič Working meeting with the Minister and her colleagues. The discussion also referred to the requirements for amending the Placement of Children with Special Needs Act (ZUOPP) or the adoption of another suitable regulation which would determine the operations of educational institutions also in extraordinary weather conditions or in the case of natural disasters. Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia Human Rights Ombudsman Vlasta Nussdorfer, her Deputy and Head of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) Ivan Šelih, mag. Jure Markič, the Ombudsman’s adviser, and representatives of several NGOs participating with the Ombudsman within the NPM Press conference upon the handover of both reports. Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih provided the media with the main findings of the National Preventive Mechanism in Slovenia. Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia 29. 7 July 2015 At the premises of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM FOR 2015 5 IMPLEMENTATION OF DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM 5 IMPLEMENTATION OF DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM Date 249