8.3. Trainings and other events          The training programme wherein Raivo Sults introduces fundamental rights to conscripts serving in the Defence Forces continued in 2016 and 2017. In 2016, Raivo Sults introduced fundamental rights to conscripts in 5 battalions and delivered 2 lectures at the Estonian National Defence College. In 2017, he delivered 5 lectures in different battalions. Ksenia Žurakovskaja-Aru gave lectures on "The child and prison" to the students of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences on 30 September 2016 and on 10 March 2017, in which she explained, among other things, what is ill-treatment, the OPCAT and the role of the Chancellor of Justice in the prevention of ill-treatment. Raivo Sults attended the summer school for the national preventive mechanisms on 14-17 August 2017 in Bristol. Indrek-Ivar Määrits attended the consultation meeting “Draft set of rules for administration detention of migrants and independent observatory of NPMs (NPM Obs)“ organised by the Council of Europe on 3 May – 2 June 2017 in Strasbourg. Indrek-Ivar Määrits attended the cooperation seminar of preventive mechanisms „Network of SPACE national correspondents and Network of national prison monitoring bodies (especially NPMs)“ on 3-5 April 2017 in Strasbourg. Raivo Sults attended the training seminar for ombudsmen of the armed forces on 19-22 March 2017 in Warsaw. On 28 November 2016, a colloquium dedicated to the 10th anniversary of OPCAT was organised in the Office of the Chancellor of Justice. In the colloquium, Estonia's renowned legal scholars discussed substance of the prohibition of ill-treatment and how the principle should be interpreted in practice. For the sixth time, the children’s and youth film festival ‘Just Film’ held as part of the PÖFF Film Festival included a special programme on the rights of the child, prepared in cooperation between Just Film, the Chancellor of Justice, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Estonian Union for Child Welfare. Bearing in mind the anniversary of OPCAT, three films speaking about youth in closed institutions were chosen into the programme – 4 Kings, They Call Us Monsters and Starless Dreams. On 15, 17 and 18 November 2016, screening of the films were followed by debates with invited experts and recognised personalities analysing the films together with viewers. Eva Lillemaa made a presentation on respecting for fundamental rights in health care institutions at the conference of the Tartu University Hospital and 15

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