SECTION 1. nationals and stateless persons illegally staying in Ukraine, holding rooms for the temporarily detained military, remand prisons, arrest houses, penitentiary institutions, reception and distribution centers for children, general and vocational social rehabilitation schools, children’s medical and social rehabilitation centers, special educational institutions, military units, military guardhouses, disciplinary battalions, special holding centers for persons under administrative arrest, city, district and line departments, divisions, units and stations of the police, specialized vehicles (including such with convoy), holding areas (rooms) for defendants (convicts) at courts, institutions of compulsory treatment; • psychiatric institutions; • temporary accommodation facilities for refugees; • transit passengers’ areas at border crossings; • nursing homes, childcare residences, asylums and children’s homes, boarding schools of general education for orphans and children deprived of parental care, centers of social rehabilitation for disabled children, children’s centers of social and psychological rehabilitation; • neuropsychiatric residences; • geriatric homes and boarding facilities for the elderly; • boarding facilities for war and labor veterans; • social rehabilitation centers. Other authority of the NPM as per Article 19-1 of the Law “On the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner Rights” includes such rights: for 7 Human • to undertake regular visits of the settings indicated in Article 13.8 of this Law, without prior notification about the time and purpose of such visits and without any limitation of the number of visits; • to interview individuals held in the settings indicated in Article 13.8 of this Law, in order to receive information about their treatment and holding conditions, and to interview other persons capable of providing such information; • to submit proposals regarding prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to bodies of state power, public authorities, enterprises, institutions and organizations, irrespective of the form of their ownership and including those indicated in Article 13.8 of this Law; • to involve domestic and foreign representatives of civic organizations, experts, researchers and specialists in the regular visits of the settings indicated in Article 13.8 of this Law, under relevant contracts (with or without remuneration); • to exercise other powers stipulated in this Law. In 2012 after a lengthy public discussion with participation of the leading national and international experts it was decided to launch a NPM in the format “Ombudsman +” that implies monitoring visits of custodial settings by the staff of the Ombudsman’s Secretariat and by civil society activists (Drawing 1).