CHAPTER 4. LEGAL ENLIGHTENING This should be mentioned to the point that OPCAT recalls that the effective prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment requires education and a combination of various legislative, administrative, judicial and other measures.18 As in previous years, the legal enlightening work was carried out in 2014, in different directions; it was organized for the NPG members, the staff members of the detention places, as well as detainees. Special attention was paid also to enlightening of the members of the NPG during the period of activity. Conduction of concerning trainings, instructions, seminars with involvement of influential experts has a special significance in improvement of the NPM work, increasing the capacities of members of the preventive group. In this standpoint, the members of the NPG themselves tried to benefit from these trainings. As a continuation of measures in the direction of learning the European experience in the frames of the EU TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Informational Exchange) Project, the members of the NPG participated at the seminar on the topic “Social adaptation of persons released from serving their term from the penitentiary facilities” conducted on January 29, 2014, at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population, with participation of the expert from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Mrs. Sharon Walker. The aim of the seminar was to acquaint with the works undertaken in the country in the sphere of social adaptation of persons released from the penitentiary institutions, to introduce local specialists with the international experience in the relevant sphere, attraction of the society’s attention to assistance in social adaptation of the abovementioned persons. Considering the contribution of legal enlightening of the staff of the lawenforcement bodies in more efficient protection of human rights, this was decided to conduct such meetings and events on a regular basis. At the seminar considered to be held on the topic “the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, respect to human and citizen’s rights and freedoms” for the staff of the migration bodies of the Republic of Azerbaijan on May 24, 2014, the representative of the Ombudsman Office held a seminar. From August 2007, according to the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, UNICEF, OSCE 18 “Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Preamble, 72