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. 226 226 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.” 99