73 Activities in 2018 Meetings and visits abroad, participation in international conferences etc. WHEN 3–4 January 4 January ACTIVITY Meeting of the Nordic NPMs held in Copenhagen, Denmark Meeting with the Danish Ombudsman’s children’s office (Børnekontoret) in Copenhagen, Denmark 23 January Meeting with Penal Reform International about inmates and mental health in London, UK 29 January Meeting with Therese M. Rytter, member of the European Committee for the ­Prevention of Torture (CPT) and head of the CPT’s delegation to Norway in 2018, and Jens Modvig, head of the UN Committee against Torture (CAT), in Copenhagen, Denmark 30 January Study visit to Ballerup in Denmark and the Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark’s ‘Belt-free centre’ project, with a focus on effective strategies to reduce the use of force in psychiatric inpatient wards 23– 25 April Oral dialogue between the Norwegian government representatives and the UN Committee against Torture, including a preliminary meeting with the committee, in Geneva, Switzerland 24 April Meeting with the Association of the Prevention of Torture (APT) in Geneva 24 April Meeting with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland 26–27 June Participation in the ‘Second UK Mental Disability Law Conference’ in Nottingham, UK 29–30 August Meeting of the Nordic preventive mechanisms held in Lund, Sweden 3–4 December Network meeting for the prevention of torture in the OSCE region organised by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) and OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Milan, Italy