13.2. International activities
On October 13-14, 2016, in Vienna, Gergely Fliegauf attended the Annual
Meeting of NPMs from the OSCE Region. The meeting focused on the activities and positions of National Preventive Mechanisms, and on the experiences of cooperation between themselves and with civil society organizations.
On November 3-4, 2016, Katalin Haraszti delivered a presentation226
under the title “Asylum Seeking Unaccompanied Children in Hungary” at
the conference “Access to the Right to Asylum and Formal/Informal Return of
Migrants/Refugees” on the development of the legal protection system of
refugees, organized in Ohrid by the Macedonian Ombudsman institution. The conference focused on access to asylum, with a special view
to the experiences of the human rights institutions of the South-Eastern
European countries.
Between June 06 and 08, 2016, in Vienna, at the first conference of
the program “Increasing the cooperation between judiciary and NPMs: An
opportunity to strengthen fundamental rights in the implementation of EU law,”
organized by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute and the Academy of European Law, I was represented by Krisztina Izsó. Later on, the organizers
held a telephone conference, using a questionnaire sent out in advance to
the representatives of all participants, on the possibilities of cooperation
between the courts and the National Preventive Mechanisms, and on the
conclusions and effects of the conference. During the telephone conference held on August 31, 2016, my position was conveyed by Krisztina Izsó
and István Sárközy. The program’s second conference was held between
November 15 and 17, 2016. The participants discussed the possibilities
of cooperation between the judiciary and the NPMs and the topic of EU
framework decisions related to detention. The event was attended by
Krisztina Izsó and István Sárközy.
The conference organized within the frameworks of the SEE NPM
network in Zagreb, between November 28 and 30, 2016, was attended by
Gergely Fliegauf and István Sárközy. The presentations touched upon the
tenth anniversary of the OPCAT, the effect of the UN’s Nelson Mandela
Rules on the operation of the NPMs, the role of follow-up inquiries, and the
issues of migration.
On December 08-09, 2016, in Stockholm, Katalin Haraszti participated in
the conference “Promoting Good Practices in Protecting Unaccompanied Children
and Finding Solutions for the Children, Families, Societies and States,” organized
by the Council of the Baltic Sea States and the Central European Initiative,
dealing with the issues of the protection of minor migrants.
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The text of the presentation was published in Macedonian (pp. 89 through 93), Albanian
(pp. 212 through 216) and English (pp. 333 through 337) in the final publication of the conference entitled “Access to the right to asylum and formal/informal return of migrants/refugees.”
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