3.3. Activities with the purpose of promoting and protecting human rights Bearing in mind the previous years activities, the Ombudsman’s activity in 2016, as a National Human Rights Institution, has spread to several initiatives that, along with the instruction of the complaints that have come to them, shared the desideratum to promote and defend human rights. In this sense, and in addition to the actions that are referred to throughout this report, it is important to state others in which this State body participated, beginning, from the outset, by those who had the presence of the Ombudsman himself: • On May 6, an intervention entitled «Health: a question of the Ombudsman», delivered at the Conference on Health Justice, organized by the Regional Health Secretariat of the Autonomous Region of the Azores and the Regional Health Inspection, in Angra do Heroísmo; • On May 19, intervention entitled «Speech delivered at the Opening Session of the Cycle of Conferences in Homage to Professor Jorge Ribeiro de Faria», delivered in the Cycle of Conferences in Homage to Professor Jorge Ribeiro de Faria, organized by the University of Porto, in Porto; • On May 20, intervention entitled «The Defense of Fundamental Rights and Additive Behaviors: The Role of the Ombudsman», delivered at the National Congress of Addictology - time and addictions: linking science, clinics and politics, in Coimbra; • On June 2, participation in the opening session of the Conference on Europe and Refugees - Risks and Opportunities, promoted by the Immigration and Borders Services, at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon, in Lisbon; • On July 17, participation on the opening session of the First Iberian Conference on Restorative Justice, promoted by the Association Confiar, in Cascais. It should also be noted that in the course of 2016 the Ombudsman participated with some writings for works or magazines. One of the texts elaborated under the theme «La Constitution portugaise de 1976 et le Provedor de Justiça: 40 ans de chemin commun», is part of the collective work dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, organized by the Institute of Iberian Studies and Ibero-Americans of the Université de Pau et des pays de l’ Adour. Another focused on the role of local elected officials in promoting and defending their fellow citizens, thus helping the Ombudsman to associate himself with the evocation of the 40 years of elected local power. Two articles were also written for publication in national collective works. The article entitled “The Ombudsman for the promotion and defense of the rights of migrants” was intended to be part of the Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair’s book on Immigration, Refugees and Equality organized by the Brazilian Institute of Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. In turn, the article entitled «Justice and its Provider» aimed at its integration in 80 |