places of detention was held in January 2017. A meeting with the associations who work in detention centres for illegal immigrants was held in June. The Chief Inspector also received the associations which called on her to hold discussions on more specific subjects. Regular communication also takes place with the latter through case referrals. Finally, as every year, the Contrôleur général was asked to contribute to symposia, vocational training programmes, public meetings and conferences. Accordingly, the CGLPL made some fifty such contributions over the year, in France and abroad, within intergovernmental and nongovernmental international bodies. The Chief Inspector has provided insight at a wide array of events, including: 1.3 - a contribution at the seminar "On the boundaries of vulnerability" organised by the French National Association for the Assistance of Foreigners at Borders – Anafé; - a contribution on prison overcrowding during the Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Associations Reflection-Action, Prison and Justice (FARAPEJ); - a contribution at the 3rd international French-speaking conference Psychiatry and Violence (Lausanne, Switzerland); - a contribution at the national congress of the French National Association of Prison Visitors – ANVP (Vichy); - a contribution during a symposium on prisoners' rights, organised by Les Hauts-deSeine Bar; - a contribution at a conference on "Sexuality in women's prisons" organised by the Sciences Po PRESAGE programme (Research and Educational Program on Gender Studies); - a contribution at the 23rd Autumn School of the French Human Rights League on the topic "Health in all its states: thinking and acting for rights"; - a contribution at the opening plenary session of the Génépi Prison-Justice Day. Participation in training, education or research activities The CGLPL was called on for initial training or continuing professional development activities by the French National School for the Judiciary (ENM), French National College of Policing (ENSP), School for National Gendarmerie Officers (EOGN) and French National School for Prison Administration (ENAP). It participated in classes taught at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, the Universities of Paris 1, Grenoble-Alpes, Pau and Pays de l’Adour and Toulouse-Capitole, as well as the Toulouse Catholic Institute, where a class of law students was sponsored by the Chief Inspector of places of deprivation of liberty. The Chief Inspector contributed to several symposia, not least on 24 March, on "Prison overcrowding" at the Institute of criminal sciences and criminology of the Faculty of Law and Politics at Aix-Marseille and on 12 September, on "The hidden side of human rights in prison" at the Sorbonne Philosophical and Legal Science Institute (University of Paris 1) On a final note, one inspector took part in the summer school on the Nelson Mandela Rules organised by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) and NGO Penal Reform International (PRI) at the University of Bristol (UK). 104