Performance record Also for the first time in 2016, the IOI organised a breakout session within the IOI breakout session framework of the judicial dialogue at the European Forum Alpbach. The title at Forum Alpbach of this interactive workshop was “Human rights on the run”. In addition to Ombudsman Kräuter, who presented of the IOI’s work, Christoph Pinter, Director of UNHCR Austria, highlighted the role of his organisation in the refugee crisis. The multidisciplinary and multicultural group of participants at this seminar discussed the working methods of national and international human rights organisations and drafted suggestions for improving communication and the cooperation between these organisations. In the field of further education, a training programme on systemic investigative proceedings was offered in March in Japan for the first time with the help of the IOI. Another first-time-event was a training programme in Spanish, which took place in Argentina in June 2016. Employees of Latin American ombudsman institutions were thus given the opportunity to take part in a multi-day workshop on complaint and investigation work. The NPM focus in 2016 was also extended with follow-up training in Vilnius, Lithuania. 1.5.2 Training offers International cooperation National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) In its function as National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), the AOB, together with its commissions, is always interested in an intensive exchange of knowledge and a close cooperation with other NPMs (see chapter 3.2.7). OSCE The AOB takes an active part in the OSCE dialogue on the challenges and further development opportunities of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs). In September, the AOB sent an expert to an implementation meeting in Warsaw on questions regarding the human dimension. This annually held platform for democracy and human rights provides the opportunity of taking stock of the implementation status of the human rights commitments in the respective states and to discuss the associated challenges. OSCE implementation meeting on the human dimension An expert meeting organised by the OSCE (ODIHR) in cooperation with the Council of Europe, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the IOI brought ombudspersons and representatives of international organisations and the scientific community to Warsaw at the end of the OSCE expert meeting to strengthen NHRIs 25

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