Development of online tools In 2014, Kharkiv Institute for Social Research initiated development of an integrated online platform for generalization of data on all places of detention in Ukraine. The map allows for not only viewing the list of all places of detention, but also selecting the necessary facilities by region, jurisdiction, type, visits, and date (entire period or specific year and month). The page is a useful tool for planning and evaluation of NPM monitoring, as well as cooperation with all 10 ministries and agencies responsible for places of detention, discussion of conditions, as well as lobbying for positive change. The project was implemented with the support of the UN Development Program in Ukraine and ISAR Ednannia. The need for consolidation of large quantities of data on monitored facilities, visit reports, as well as acts of response to these reports by state authorities motivated the Association of Ukrainian Human Rights Monitors on Law Enforcement (Association UMDPL) in cooperation with NPM Department to establish an online database. Completion of database development is scheduled for 2015 with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation. It will include thee key units of information: 1) visits reports (with an option to fill out a report by the monitoring group online); 2) information on all places of detention in Ukraine (with basic information on each facility and history of visitation), and 3) information on conducted trainings for monitors (including information on training participants and level of preparation of each NPM monitor). Informational support The Human Rights Information Center (HRIC) provided significant informational support for NPM activities in 2014 through development of textual and multimedia content for the www.npm.org.ua website (in Ukrainian and Russian) and social networks: NPM Facebook page and Twitter account. On 24 June 2014, before the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, a press conference “Annual report of the national preventive mechanism: what is happening behind closed doors?” was held. The press conference included presentation of the monitoring of human rights observance in places of detention in 2013, and the media received unique evidence on conditions and treatment of persons in these facilities. Journalists of the Human Rights Information Center developed a serious of opinion articles on human rights in places of detention and activities of the national preventive mechanism published by Ukrayinska Pravda and Dzerkalo Tyzhnya. HRIC 35