98 13. International activities, international relations (hereinafter the “CPT”) of the Council of Europe. In my response, I recommended Gergely Fliegauf, Head of the Department, and Margit Katalin Haraszti, Deputy Head of the Department. 13.2. International activities On February 15, 2016, Gergely Fliegauf and Fanni Murányi attended the final conference of the project “Children’s Rights Behind Bars” held in Brussels, in the office building of the European Economic and Social Council. The conference presented a Handbook (Practical Guideline) on visiting places of detention holding children deprived of their liberty. The Department made good use of the handbook in the course of its later visits. On February 15-16, 2016, in Vienna, Katalin Haraszti participated in an event jointly organized by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (hereinafter the “FRA”), the Council of Europe, the Equinet, and the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions, focusing on the reception and integration of migrants, including children. The meeting of the Working Group on Migration of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions was held in Vienna, on February 16-17, 2016; the meeting’s main topic was the thematic cooperation between the members of the Network. This meeting was also attended by Katalin Haraszti. (“Meeting between FRA, the Council of Europe, Equality Bodies, National Human Rights Institutions and Ombudsperson Institutions”) The meeting of the SEE NPM Network and the related conference on the elderly (“Homes for the elderly/care institutions and dementia – standards in health care and medication-based restrictions to freedom”), held in Salzburg, between April 20 and 22, 2016, was attended by Gergely Fliegauf. The most important result of the meeting was that, accepting my request, the Hungarian National Preventive Mechanism was adopted as a full member of the SEE NPM Network. The materials of the meeting were made available by the Department to the other organizational units of the Office. On the meeting of the V4 Ombudsmen, held in Slovakia on September 26-27, 2016, Hungary was represented by Elisabeth Sándor-Szalay, my Deputy in charge of the protection of nationalities living in Hungary. One of the topics of the meeting was the performance of the tasks of the National Preventive Mechanism. Between October 10 and 12, 2016, in Vienna, István Sárközy and Gergely Fliegauf participated in the meeting of the SEE NPM Network. In the course of the meeting, they had an opportunity to visit an assisted living center for the elderly, operating on the basis of “best practices,” and to join as observers an inspection by the Austrian National Preventive Mechanism.

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