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
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