• On October 21, an intervention entitled «The Ombudsman and the prison situation», delivered at the International Conference Our Prisons: What Present and What Future?, sponsored by the Bar Association in Lisbon; • On November 7, participation in the International Law Meetings, dedicated to the theme «Current Trends in Civil and Commercial Judicial Cooperation», organized by the Office of International Relations of the Directorate General of Justice Policy in Lisbon; • On November 11, participation in the formation about «Migrations», promoted by the Judicial Studies Center, which took place at the Higher Institute of Management Sciences, in Lisbon; • On November 21, the intervention of the reflection session on the topic «The Convention on the Rights of the Child TODAY», promoted by the National Commission for the Promotion of the Rights and Protection of Children and Young People, in Lisbon; • On November 24 and 25, participation in the International Conference on Policies and Practices in Intervention in Gender Violence, organized by the Lisbon City Council, in Lisbon; • On December 2 and 3 , participation in the II European Congress of Labor Law, promoted by the Student Association of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, in Lisbon; • Participation in the workshop on the creation and implementation of an individual complaint mechanism of FRONTEX (European Border Agency and Coast Guard), in conjunction with the Member States and the countries subscribing to the Schengen Agreement, in Brussels. On November 15, the Ombudsman joined in the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and promoted the Conference The Ombudsman and the 40 years of the Constitution. This event took place in the Assembly Hall of the Republic and was attended by the President of the Parliament, the Ombudsman and, as a speaker, by Professor José Gomes Canotilho, who gave the conference «Razões de uma razão e a compaixão dos cidadãos». Within this scope, the Ombudsman presents himself as a privileged interlocutor with international organizations that work in the promotion and defense of human rights, making contributions, replying to questionnaires addressed to this State body for the purpose of knowing and understanding the culture of respect for human rights in Portugal. It is therefore important to mention the active and committed role of the Ombudsman in the periodic evaluations resulting from the international obligations assumed by the Portuguese State. In 2016, this role consisted in the elaboration of two autonomous | 85