SECTION 1. activities In 2013 the NPM Department actively promoted and assisted in the conduct of various training and awareness-raising activities for Ukrainian NGOs. Detailed information on such events is presented in Annex 2 at the end of the Report. In total, last year featured • ­12 trainings; • ­11 seminars/ workshops and working meetings; • ­5 press-conferences. Separate information-related efforts in 2013 were made by NGO “Center of Human Rights Information”, which, with the support of International Renaissance Foundation and in cooperation with the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, the Expert Council with the Ombudsman’s Representative for NPM implementation, Association of independent monitors of custodial settings, Kharkiv Institute for Social Research, Association of Ukrainian Monitors of Law-enforcement, UNICEF and other organizations, was providing regular informational support to the developing NPM in the framework of “NPM Implementation In Ukraine: The Information Component” Project. In particular, work was conducted in the following areas: 1. Launch of a new NPM website and work with social networks One of the key objectives of the Centre of Human Rights Information is awareness and information campaigning in the society with regard to the national preventive mechanism. In order to explain this mechanism to potential monitors and other stakeholders and to make information about its 13 implementation available, it is crucial to operate a specialized website and to post other information on the topic in social networks. The site of the National Preventive Mechanism www.npm.org.ua was created back in 2012, but already the first year of its operation showed that it needed considerable improvements, both in software and content. Therefore, even though such work was not planned for the first phase of the project its implementers suggested a mechanism of increasing information volumes and the number of visitors of the resource. As the platform of the earlier site was very basic and did not allow for the development of the site, it was decided to restart the website on a new platform, with parallel transfer of the previous content and addition of new information. By early 2014 the startup, testing and content placement works were completed. At present the site features structured userfriendly information. The resource became interactive - with feedback forms and options to ask questions and get answers. It also has new multimedia contents (photos, videos) and an interactive map of custodial settings in Ukraine, as well as properly structured information about NPM, custodial settings, relevant publications in the mass media, monitors’ stories, etc. Given the growing popularity of social networks and information requests via such resources NPM profiles were created in major social networks: on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NPMUkraine and in Twitter - https://twitter.com/NPM_ Ukraine. These profiles allow tracking all NPM news and have already turned into hubs for mobilization of the monitors’ community and other interested users. At the same