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granting a single financial supplement proportional the hours of visits/surveys performed
at those locations for staff visiting or investigating in places with high hazard factors which
are likely to affect their physical and mental health and integrity.
6. Regarding the professional training of the personnel, we mention that following the
inclusion of the Romanian NPM in the East European Network (October 2016), the staff
received professional and logistic support by attending workshops, conferences and
seminars, for example:
The Conference of the SE Europe Network of National Prevention Mechanisms - Zagreb,
with the following themes: the refugee crisis, the implementation of the Mandela Rules
and strengthening the monitoring of the NPM recommendations.
The Conference "Human Rights Protection for Refugees and Migrants in South-Eastern
European Countries - Preventive Approach", Belgrade, Serbia
The South Eastern Europe Network NPM Meeting on "Homes for the Elderly / Care
Institutions and Dementia - Standards in Healthcare and Restriction of Freedom for
Medication Reasons" and the Annual Meeting of NPMs - in the OSCE region - Vienna on
"Strengthening the implementation of fundamental rights on the basis of EU criminal law
through cooperation between the judiciary and the NPMs ".
Also, NPM staff participated in 2016 in several training courses:
The final conference "Children's Rights behind bars", Brussels
MNP Consultative Workshop "Strengthening the implementation of fundamental rights
based on EU criminal law through cooperation between the judiciary and the MNP, "Ludwig
Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights (BIM), Vienna, Austria;
Workshop “Monitoring Psychiatric Institutions “, Vilnius, Lithuania
Summer University Courses, Monitoring of Police Departments, organized by the Association
for the Prevention of Torture and the Institute for Human Rights in Lyon, France;
“An inclusive society through prison reform”, an event organized by APADOR CH, in
collaboration with the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.
In 2017, NPM personnel benefited from professional training in the field of torture
prevention through the workshop organized by APT here in Bucharest, with the
support of the International Organization of the Francophonie "Monitoring of
Detention Sites: Practical Workshop and Reflection", with the following themes:
Monitoring of Detention Places (Program and Visitation Strategy, Fundamental
Principles of Monitoring, „Focus Detention” Database); Concept of vulnerability in
detention (Intrinsic or contextual character of vulenerability; Personal
environmental and socio-cultural factors; Multiple vulnerabilities; Role of NPM);
Allegations of ill-treatment (Case identification and assessment; Differences
between torture, inhuman treatments and degrading treatments); Preparing the
visit to the Bucharest-Jilava Penitentiary (Practical and Logistic Information);
Analysis of the visit; Monitoring strategies (Visiting reports, „SMART”
Recommendations, mapping the actors, monitoring of recommendations and their
implementation.
NPM also participated in:
Southern Europe NPM network reunion, The treatment of people with mental disabilities
in detention organized by the Ombudsman Serbia, Belgrade May 25-26, 2017;
The UE NPM networking conference organized by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg 4-5
April 2017;
MNP consultative meeting on the Set of rules on administrative detention of migrants,
Strasbourg, 31 May-1 June 2017.
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