1.7 Review of the Activities of the NPM in 2013 5 November 2013 Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman, Robert Gačnik and Jure Markič, Ombudsman’s advisers Visit of Czech NPM representatives Ladislav Tomeček, Milan Svoboda and Ondřej Vala). Functioning of the Slovenian NPM was presented in the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia. They visited a police station, a home for the elderly and a prison. The Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia 8 November 2013 Police Academy in Tacen, Ljubljana Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman, and A presentation of the work of the Ombudsman Robert Gačnik, Ombudsman’s adviser and NPM, visits to police stations and presentation of the main findings of the visits. Ministry of the Interior and the Police Academy 21-22 November 2011 Strasbourg, France Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman Participation in the conference Immigration Detention in Europe: Establishing Common Concerns and Developing Minimum Standards. Council of Europe 26 November 2013 Belgrade, Serbia Robert Gačnik, Ombudsman’s adviser Participation in the round table Five reports of the Centre for Human Rights Niš and the Coalition of the reform of the prison system. Centre for Human Rights Niš and the Coalition of the reform of the prison system under the sponsorship of the EU delegation to Serbia. 4 December 2013 Moscow, Russia Ivan Šelih, Deputy Ombudsman Participation in the international conference The public monitoring of places of detention. Russian and International experiences Moscow Regional Public Charity Foundation Social Partnership, Moscow Helsinki Group in cooperation with the Council of Europe and the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Russian Federation 19 December 2013 Vlasta Nussdorfer, Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman, and her colleagues Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia Meeting of Vlasta Nussdorfer, Ombudsman, with Karel Erjavec, Minister of Foreign Affairs, where they debated the issue of detained persons, citizens of the Republic of Slovenia who are detained in the prisons abroad. The Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia 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 143