ANNEX 5 – NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL AGENCY IN THE PERIOD UNDER REVIEW Date Place Participant Activity 28/29 Jan. 2013 Wiesbaden Joint Commission Meeting of the Joint Commission, meeting with the State Secretary for Justice and Integration in the Ministry of Justice, for Integration and Europe of Hesse, Dr Kriszeleit 9–11 Apr. 2013 Wiesbaden National Agency Visits by the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture 3 May 2013 Berlin National Agency Annual Report delivered to the Minister-President of Thuringia, Christine Lieberknecht, Chair of the Conference of Minister-Presidents 3 May 2013 Berlin Joint Commission Meeting at the German Institute for Human Rights 6 May 2013 Erfurt Joint Commission Meeting with Der Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband of Thuringia and the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Justice of Thuringia on the Joint Commission’s competence in regard to homes for the elderly and care homes 15 May 2013 Berlin National Agency Annual Report delivered to the Federal Ministry of Justice 17 May 2013 Wiesbaden Joint Commission Meeting of the Criminal Justice Committee of the Länder 23 May 2013 Frankfurt Secretariat Conference on “The Psyche in Distress – Coercion and Violence, Power and Powerlessness in Psychiatry” 3 June 2013 Berlin Federal Agency Panel discussion organised by Amnesty International: “How serious is Germany about preventing torture?” 24 June 2013 Berlin Federal Agency Meeting with a delegation from Uzbekistan as part of a project run by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) 13 June 2013 Wiesbaden Secretariat Meeting with the Presidium of the National Commission for the Prevention of Torture of Switzerland 9 July 2013 Berlin National Agency Meeting with Amnesty International 27 Aug. 2013 Berlin Federal Agency Protestant Church in Germany, Berlin – participation in a meeting on deportation monitoring 10 Sept. 2013 Berlin Joint Commission Meeting with the head of the Human Rights Directorate in the Australian Ministry of Justice 13/14 Nov. 2013 Bremen Secretariat Suicide Prevention Working Group 21/22 Nov. 2013 Strasburg Joint Commission Immigration Detention Conference 21 Nov. 2013 Strasburg Joint Commission Meeting with the CPT 23 Nov. 2013 Gießen Secretariat Conference on “Torture Interpersonal Violence” 30 Nov.2013 Berlin Federal Agency Meeting with the Federal Ministry of Justice 6 Dec. 2013 Berlin Federal Agency Event in the Office of the Federal President on Human Rights Day 101 – An Extreme Form of