NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism ANNUAL REPORT 2019 88 WHEN ACTIVITY 26 August Meeting with the Ministry of Health and Care Services on the Special Report and the thematic report on segregation in mental healthcare institutions. 28 August Presentation of Norwegian Official Report 2019:14 Draft Law on the Reduction of Coercive Measures [Tvangsbegrensningsloven] by the chair of the authoring committee (Tvangslovsutvalget), professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen, Bjørn Henning Østenstad. 20 September Celebration of Nora Sveaass' receipt of the King’s Medal of Merit. 10–11 October Attended the Institution conference 2019. Topic: Samhandling i miljøterapien – vekst og utvikling for og med barn og ungdom (Interaction in milieu therapy – growth and development for and with children and young people). 14 October Meeting of the advisory committee. Nora Sveaass gave an introductory talk on the work of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture. 15 October Meeting with the Red Cross on solitary confinement in prisons and the project on the rehabilitation of victims of torture in Norway. 16 October Meeting of the ombudsman network, the Norwegian National Human Rights Institution (NIM), the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombudsman (LDO) and the Ombudsman for Children. 17 October Meeting with the Directorate of the Norwegian Correctional Service’s labour association on the Special Report to the Storting. 23 October Meeting with the Directorate of Health on the Special Report to the Storting. 1 November Meeting with the Norwegian Nurses' Association on the Special Report. 5 November Meeting with the interim board for the establishment of a human rights committee in the Norwegian Medical Association. 26 November Meeting with the Standing Committee on Justice, at the Storting on the Special Report to the Storting. 10 December Meeting with the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision on the Special Report. 10 December Meeting with the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services, at the Storting, on the Special Report to the Storting. 11 December Meeting with the advisory committee to the Norwegian National Human Rights Institution. 13 December Meeting with the Ombudsman for Children about key findings in its report on child welfare institutions, to be launched in January 2020. 18 December Meeting with the Socialist Left Party’s parliamentary group on the Special Report to the Storting.