SECTION 1. Implemenation of the NMP in ukraine tional support of the Ombudsman of Ukraine. The conference had an attendance of nearly 40 representatives of domestic and foreign authorities and civic groups. Foreign NPM-related experience was shared by NPM representatives from Poland, Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Association for Prevention of Torture. The discussion of the future operation of the Ukrainian NPM featured active participation of the representatives of the Ukrainian third sector and public authorities – Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Health Care, State Border Service, State Penitentiary Service, Ministry of Social Policy, Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Sports, Ministry of Defense and of other bodies of power in charge of custodial settings. The underlying topic of the conference was the newly established Ukrainian NPM. For two days the participants discussed the key issues of the structure of torture/ ill-treatment prevention mechanisms in different nations, exchanged available NPM experience and explained some problems in the interaction of state authorities with the public. Cooperation with the public also implies regular coverage of NPM activities and dissemination of relevant information. The Ombudsman’ Office developed and began operating its special resource NPM.org.ua. Regularly renewed information about current 29 NPM activities gets posted on the WEB pages of KHISR (khisr.kharkov.ua), Kharkiv Human Rights Group (khpg. org), Center of Human Rights Information (humanrights.com.ua) and on Facebook. Special mention should be given to such NPM element as the Expert Council with the Ombudsman’s Representative for matters of NPM implementation. This Council was established in order to maintain reliable communication between the Ombudsman’s Secretariat and members of the public. The principal tasks of the Council will be to select and recommend monitors for the monitoring visits system, to develop a single methodology of such visits, to make and consolidate informational and analytical reports, to consider the ethical aspects of monitors’ activity, etc. The Expert Council includes representatives of national NGOs with considerable experience of human rights monitoring in custodial settings – the experts from Association of Independent Monitors of Custodial Settings (AIM), Association of Ukrainian Monitors on Law-enforcement (AUMDPL), Youth Alternative (M’ART), Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Kharkiv Institute for Social Research (KhISR), Kharkiv Human Rights Group (KhHRG) and Center of Human Rights Information (CHRI). The Expert Council also invited, as observers, the experts of a number of international and intergovernmental or-