ANNUAL REPORT OF 2019 ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SEIMAS OMBUDSMEN’S OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA places of detention, the distribution of visits was as follows: adult care institutions were visited 20 (twenty) times (twenty adult care institutions were inspected), mental health care institutions – 6 (six) times (mental health departments of three hospitals were inspected arranging from one to three visits to them); places of detention (housing) of foreigners – 7 (seven) times (three units of the State Border Guard Service (SBGS) under the Ministry of the Interior – the Foreigners Registration Centre (FRC), which was visited five times and two Border Inspection Posts); prisons – 7 (seven) times (seven prisons were inspected) and temporary detention facilities of police headquarters – 5 (five) times (five temporary detention facilities of police stations were inspected). Places of detention of foreigners 25 9 185 52 Police detention facilities Correctional institutions 3. Cooperation 7 and remand prisons 67 92 Number of places of detention in Lithuania Police detention facilities Mental health institutions 5 6 20 Adult care institutions Correctional institutions and remand prisons In the context of national prevention of torture and other activities of the NHRI, it is also important to ensure the proper dissemination of information on human rights implementation and inter-institutional cooperation; therefore, the functions of the national prevention of torture and the results of their implementation are presented in different counties of Lithuania every year. These meetings are used to present the national prevention of torture performed by the Seimas Ombudsmen in social care institutions, identify the most urgent issues of ensuring human rights, analyse their potential solutions and discuss the organisation of adult care in municipalities and the problems encountered. Adult care institutions Adult care institutions Child care and socialization institutions 2. Information activities In 2019, such presentation was hosted in Telšiai District Municipality for representatives of social service management care institutions Police detention facilities units and 5 responsible for the provision of long-term social care institutions services to 6adults in Telšiai District Mental health Municipality. 20 Correctional institutions and remand prisons Mental health and communicable disease treatment institutions 29 7 Places of detention of foreigners 7 Number of visits to places of detention in 2019 EVERYONE COUNTS Places of With a detention view to ensuring inter-institutional of foreigners 7 Ombudsmen cooperation, in 2019, the Seimas repeatedly met with representatives of public groups, public authorities, international human rights organisations representatives of the staff of the places of detention, other responsible authorities, such as the Ombudsman for Children, E. Žiobienė, representatives of the Lithuanian Trade Union ‘Solidarumas’, representatives of the Ministry of Justice and the Prisons Department, public authorities and non-governmental organisations on the implementation of recommendations issued by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, representatives of the International Organisation for Migration, representatives of the UN Refugee Agency, the National LGBT Rights Organisation, and representatives of the State Border Guard Service.