CAT/C/48/3 23. During the course of the reporting period, Subcommittee members accepted invitations to be involved in a number of meetings at the national, regional and international levels, concerning the designation, establishment and development of NPMs in particular or the Optional Protocol in general (including NPMs). Those activities were organized with the support of civil society organizations (in particular APT, the International Federation of ACAT (Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture) (FIACAT), Penal Reform International (PRI) and the Optional Protocol Contact Group), NPMs, regional bodies such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa (CPTA), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (ODIHR-OSCE), as well as international organizations such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). These events included: (a) January 2011: High-level round-table on detention conditions in the European Union, held by the European Commission in Brussels; (b) March 2011: Workshop on the Optional Protocol held in Amman, Jordan by the OHCHR-Middle East Regional Office; (c) March 2011: International Conference on Enhancing Visits to Places of Detention: Promoting Collaboration held in Washington by the American University Washington College of Law and APT; (d) April 2011: Seminar on the Implementation of the Optional Protocol and the NPM in Burkina Faso held by APT and FIACAT; (e) May 2011: A series of consultations with national authorities and civil society representatives held in Brazil by APT; (f) June 2011: Regional Ombudsman Conference on the Role of the Ombudspersons in Combating Discrimination and Preventing Torture held by the Ombudsman of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and ODIHR-OSCE in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; (g) July 2011: National Dialogue on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, held in the Maldives by APT and the Subcommittee; (h) July 2011: Seminar on the effective functioning of the Senegalese NPM in Dakar held by CPTA; (i) September 2011: Regional high-level conference on the role of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in the prevention of torture in Africa, held by APT and the National Council for Human Rights of Morocco in Rabat; (j) September 2011: Conference on OPCAT (Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture) and Ombudsman, held by the International Ombudsman Institute in Poland; (k) September 2011: OSCE/ODIHR side-event meeting on the establishment of NPMs in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, held by PRI in Poland; (l) October 2011: Conference on Prevention of Torture, Implementation of NPMs in Argentina held by APT; (m) November 2011: Global Forum on the OPCAT held by APT in Geneva; (n) November 2011: Seminar on identifying national implementation mechanisms for the prevention of torture and other ill-treatment held in Addis Ababa by the 7