NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism ANNUAL REPORT 2018 70 Activities in 2018 Talks in Norway WHEN 12–14 January ACTIVITY Talk at the KROM conference on women in prison 6 February Talk at Ideelt Barnevernsforum 2018 on the NPM’s visits to child welfare institutions 7 February Talk at the Working Life Days (Arbeidslivsdagene) at the University of Oslo on the NPM’s work 20 March Presentation of the annual report to the Storting's Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs 19 April Talk at the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision’s one-day meeting on visit methods and main finding from visits 15 May Talk for the student-run legal advisory service Jussgruppen Wayback in Bergen on the use of solitary confinement in prisons 7 June Talk at the Directorate of Health's leader forum for the mental health care services’ supervisory commissions – on ECT administered on grounds of necessity 28 August 13 September 25 October 9 November Talk at the opening of the exhibition ‘Six Norwegian Prisons: Ideas, Spaces, Experiences 1850 – today’ about current and future use of isolation in prisons Talk at the Board of Health Supervision’s seminar for the county governors’ heads of supervision on the NPM’s visits to child welfare institutions Talk for the Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsmen (JO) during their visit to the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman, on the NPM’s visits and follow up Talk for the Correctional Service Region South’s supervisory councils 15 November Talk at a seminar for the county governors under the auspices of the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs (Bufdir) on the NPM’s visits to child welfare institutions 16 November Talk at a conference for the mental health care services’ supervisory commissions on the NPM’s findings and experience from visits, with particular focus on the use of segregation 29 November Two talks on the NPM’s work and on segregation, respectively, at the Norwegian Psychological Association’s Human Rights Committee’s anniversary seminar 6 December Talk at Oslo Peace Days, University of Oslo, on the NPM’s findings and methods