65 International cooperation In 2016, the NPM has enjoyed good cooperation with a number of international parties in the field of prevention. The NPM’s employees have attended seminars and meetings where they have given talks, participated in panel discussions and helped to raise their own as well as others’ competence. The NPM has benefited greatly from this exchange of experience and information with representatives of other countries’ national preventive mechanisms, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT), the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as civil society. – Among other things, the NPM has participated at1: ››Round table panel on anti-radicalisation work in prisons under the auspices of the Open Society Justice Initiative and the University of Bristol, Human Rights Implementation Centre, London ››Meeting on the prevention of torture in the OSCE Human Dimension Committee in Vienna ››Meeting of the Nordic network of national preventive mechanisms, Stockholm ››Seminar for national preventive mechanisms, organised by APT and IOI, on the topic of visits to mental health care institutions, Vilnius ››Meeting of ombudsmen from the Nordic countries, Bornholm ››Annual meeting of national preventive mechanisms in the OSCE region, Vienna ››SPT celebration of OPCAT's tenth anniversary, Geneva ››Conference on ‘Dignity and human rights in places of deprivation of freedom’ in connection with the establishment of Italy’s national preventive mechanism, Rome ››APT event about torture prevention at the world conference of the IOI, Bangkok During the year, the Parliamentary Ombudsman has also received visits from delegations where the topic of the visit has been preventive work. _ During the year, the Parliamentary Ombudsman has also received visits from delegations where the topic of the visit has been preventive work. The NPM has met with the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) and given talks to delegations from Bulgaria, Taiwan, Thailand and Russia. The NPM has made regular contributions to the European newsletter published under the auspices of the Council of Europe. 1 A complete list of the NPM’s activities in 2016 is included in this annual report (page 72).