14 HANDBOOK FOR NHRIs ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY The following institutions participated in the survey: OSCE participating State9 NHRI 1 Albania People’s Advocate of the Republic of Albania 2 Armenia Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia 3 Austria Austrian Ombudsman Board 4 Azerbaijan Commissioner for Human Rights 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia and Herzegovina 6 Bulgaria Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria 7 Canada Canadian Human Rights Commission 8 Croatia Ombudsman of the Republic of Croatia 9 Czech Republic Public Defender of Rights 10 Denmark Danish Institute for Human Rights 11 Estonia Chancellor of Justice of Estonia 12 Finland Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland 13 France National Advisory Commission on Human Rights 14 Georgia Public Defender 15 Germany German Institute for Human Rights 16 Greece Greek National Commission for Human Rights 17 Hungary Parliamentary Commissioner for Civil Rights of Hungary 18 Iceland Parliamentary Ombudsman of Iceland 19 Ireland Irish Human Rights Commission 20 Kazakhstan Commissioner for Human Rights 21 Kyrgyzstan Ombudsman 22 Latvia Ombudsman of the Republic of Latvia 23 Lithuania The Seimas Ombudsmen‘s Office of the Republic of Lithuania 9 ODIHR aimed to include NHRIs in all OSCE participating States in the survey. However, a number of states did not have an NHRI at the time when the survey was conducted, and several NHRIs did not respond to the survey.