CHAPTER 6. OUTCOMES AND RECOMMENDATIONS As a result of submission of numerous proposals and recommendations during the activity of Ombudsman under the demands of OPCAT and the Constitutional Law on the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Azerbaijan under demand of OPCAT and realized in the reviewed period, the attitude of law enforcement bodies, punishment execution structures and other state agencies and officials to the essence of human rights and their ensuring has been changed positively, the legal thought was formed in a new content, the steps were undertaken in the direction of improvement the administration. The Commissioner builds her activity following in compliance with the Paris Principles: - promotes bringing the national legislation acts and practices in compliance with international documents on human rights to which the country is a party to; - promotes adhering of the country to international documents and implementation of international norms in the national legislation, as well as carrying out relevant measures; - assists in working out the reports on the activities realized under the international conventions to be submitted to the UN bodies and regional institutions, expresses her reference regarding these report in compliance with the principle of independency, as well as submits additional report. From this standpoint more than half of proposals and recommendations presented in the previous reports on the activity of the Commissioner as the NPM were solved or directed for implementation. The present report also enshrines the recommendations among the previous ones but still waiting for their solution, as well as the new proposals and recommendations coming up within the activity process. With the aim of analysis of the results of the activity carried out as the NPM in 2017, efficient protection of detainees’ rights, the Commissioner proposes the following: Regarding the normative legal acts: 1. Approval of the Charter of the Social Adaptation Center and the Statutes of Social Service Institutions for the persons released from penal institutions at the State Social Protection Fund (Cabinet of Ministers); 2. Approval of the temporary Statute on “Detention stations for administratively arrested persons” and “Internal Disciplinary Rules in Penitentiary Institutions”(Cabinet of Ministers); 78

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