NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism ANNUAL REPORT 2016 72 Activities in 2016 WHEN WHAT 12 January Meeting with the free legal aid service Jussbuss 14 January Meeting with the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs' (Bufdir) Delta Centre on universal design of institutions where people are deprived of their liberty 14 January Talk on follow-up of the ratification of OPCAT and the preventive work at a department forum in the Legal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 14–17 January The Norwegian Association for Penal Reform’s 45th winter conference 25 January MRforum at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights: ‘Human Rights in the Constitution’ 25 January Visit to Bergen police custody facility 27 January Meeting with the Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers (NOAS) on the conditions for asylum seekers at Vestleiren camp, Storskog 27 January Meeting with Nora Sveaass concerning the SPT’s statement on the ‘Rights of persons institutionalized and medically treated with informed consent’ 4 February Talk to the meeting on ‘Consent rather than coercion in mental health care’ under the auspices of the Norwegian Council for Mental Health 5 February Meeting with the Red Cross on the practice at some asylum reception centres 10 February Meeting with law firm Hestenes og Dramer & Co on foreign citizens on whom special sanctions are imposed and who are to be expelled, but remain in mental health care inpatient units because the municipalities are not obliged to provide treatment to people for whom an expulsion decision has been made 17 February Cooperation meeting with the Norwegian National Human Rights Institution, the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombudsman and the Ombudsman for Children 17 February Lecture to the Correctional Service of Norway Staff Academy (KRUS) for transport escorts at Trandum 19 February Tour of the premises and meeting with the management and employees of the Juvenile Unit at Eidsvoll 29 February Meeting of the advisory committee to the National Preventive Mechanism 1 March Talk on the prevention of torture in the OSCE Human Dimension Committee (Vienna) 4 March Meeting to debate the topic of people in flight under the auspices of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo: ‘In flight: Border controls at the expense of rights?’ 8 March Meeting with the National Police Immigration Service on follow-up of the report from the visit to Trandum 14 March Meeting with the authors of the book ‘Menneskerettighetene og Norge’