8 October 2008 Denmark’s parliamentary ombudsman called the report a valuable contribution to the charting of obstacles for defenders, and had no further comments. 9 October 2008 Azerbaijan’s commissioner for human rights provided a number of materials on her recent work, and suggested inclusion of some of these in the report (see page 45, footnote 204). 9 October 2008 Finland’s parliamentary ombudsman noted her own co-operation with Finnish human rights defenders. 10 October 2008 The Office of the Public Defender of Rights of the Czech Republic suggested that the report would be useful to defenders. 13 October 2008 The Office of the Belgian Federal Ombudsman had no changes to make. 21 October 2008 Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner on human rights described her activities in respect of human rights defenders and noted their importance to democratic states (see page 38, footnote 169). International Organizations: 15 October 2008 The Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe made several changes to the section on Council of Europe activities with regard to human rights defenders (see pages 8 and 9). 10 October 2008 The European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency noted three points: that it would be engaging in a mapping exercise of both NHRIs and major NGOs within the EU in the near future, its intention to co-operate with NHRIs, and the 7-8 October EU conference on human rights defenders (for more information, see http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/human_rights/defenders/index_en.htm). Several OSCE field operations (OSCE Mission to Montenegro, OSCE Office in Baku, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan) and international NGOs (Amnesty International, Fédération Internationale pour les Droits de l’ Homme, Human Rights Watch) also provided comments to the draft report that were taken into account in several instances. 52