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Additionally, the NPM has provided input to
ongoing research and evaluation projects. We
have participated in a reference group as part of
a research project on so-called “enetiltak” where
children are placed to live alone with adult staff,
and substance abuse treatment in child welfare,
under direction of Oslo Metropolitan University and
Østfold University College, and a research project
on women inmates in need of healthcare, under
direction of the Department of Criminology and
Sociology of Law, University of Oslo.
Information work, knowledge dissemination
and teaching in 2020
The Ombudsman and the NPM staff have contrib
uted with presentations at several events through
out the year. The NPM took part in a debate on
body searches in prisons organised by Jussbuss.
The debate was set up in the wake of a judgement
at Gulating Court of Appeal. In the judgement, it
was determined that Bergen Prison had subjected
a person remanded in custody to degrading
treatment in violation of the European Convention
on Human Rights article 3, by carrying out routine
naked body searches in a humiliating manner.
Findings from the Ombudsman's visits to prisons
over several years indicate that a large number of
inmates are subjected to this type of body search.
For an exhaustive list of seminars and webinars,
see Activities 2020.
The NPM has also been involved in teaching of
Bachelor degree students at the University College
of Norwegian Correctional Service (KRUS) concern
ing solitary confinement and the mental health of
inmates, and in connection with supplementary
education for psychology specialists, concerning
human rights, coercion in mental healthcare and
on the work of the NPM.
Selected presentations:
› Panel debate on body searches, organised
by Jussbuss
› Lecture on the prohibition of torture, for
law students at the University of Oslo,
organised by Amnesty law group
› Control Commission conference, webinar
organised by the Directorate of Health
› Norwegian Correctional Service's
isolation conference
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