1.7 Review of the Activities of the NPM in 2013 1.7 Review of the Activities of the NPM in 2013 Date Location Participants (The Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia and others) Description Organiser 8 January 2013 Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman, Simona Šemen, Jure Markič, MSc, Miha Horvat, Robert Gačnik, Andreja Srebotnik, dr. Ingrid Russi-Zagožen, Petra Tovornik, Ombudsman's advisers, and Leja Drobnak, trainee At the annual meeting,the programme of visits in 2013 was developed, the analysis of previous work was conducted and the vision of the NPM for the future was set by the members of the national preventive mechanism (NPM). The following representatives of the selected NGOs took part in the meeting: Katarina Bervar Sternad (Legal Information Centre of NGOs - PIC), Branka Pondelek, Katja Sodja and Katja Piršič (the Primus Institute), Stanka Radojičič and Ana Cajnko (Slovenian Federation of Pensioners' Associations - ZDUS), Srečko Brumen, Slavica Smrtnik and Sonja Škrabec Štefančič (Novi paradoks). The Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia Zdenka Čebašek Travnik, Ombudsman, Jernej Rovšek, Ivan Šelih, Kornelija Marzel, Tone Dolčič, Deputy Ombudsmen, and Bojana Kvas, MSc, Secretary General Reading of the 17th regular annual report of the Ombudsman for 2011 during the plenary session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia during which the NPM report for 2011 was also debated. National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia 30 January National 2013 Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana 14 February 2013 Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia All the Ombudsman's personnel, members of NPM and some representatives of the selected NGOs. Lecture about expert view on dementia, given by Mojca Muršec, M.D, The Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia 18 March 2013 Ljubljana Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman, and Jure Markič, Ombudsman’s adviser Participation in the second session of the group of experts for the homes for the elderly. Slovenian Federation of Pensioners’ Organisations 24 March 2013 Belgrade, Serbia Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman, and Robert Gačnik, Ombudsman’s adviser Meeting of the national preventive mechanisms of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia. South-East Europe National Preventive Mechanism Network was founded. Serbian Ombudsman (Zaštitnik građana) in cooperation with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2013 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 135