Review of visits to institutions and certain other activities of the npm in 2018 57. 28–29 Deputy Ivan Šelih attended an international conference on the occasion of the 10th November anniversary of the Armenian NPM in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan. Similarly as 2018 in Slovenia, the Armenian Ombudsman also performs the duties and powers of the NPM. The conference was attended by many representatives of foreign NPMs, human rights institutions and international organisations active in the field of human rights protection. During the conference, the attendees discussed the situation of women and children when deprived of liberty, the provision of health care in detention institutions and police detention, and the provision of rights during detention. The participants exchanged their experience in visiting psychiatric institutions. Deputy Ivan Šelih, the Head of the Slovenian NPM, conveyed the experience in Slovenia. The conference was an excellent opportunity to deepen mutual cooperation and for further cooperation with the Armenian Human Rights Ombudsman or the NPM, which had already visited Slovenia in 2018. 58.11 December Ombudsman Vlasta Nussdorfer and her colleagues received mag. Ksenija Klampfer, 2018 Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, and her team for a working visit. The discussion focused on the issues of realising recommendations of the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia from the 2017 Annual Report of the Human Rights Ombudsman and older unrealised recommendations relating to the Ministry’s field of work. Including recommendations issued by the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia in 2017 when considering the Ombudsman’s special report on violations of human rights of persons with mental disorders in their involuntary accommodation and treatment on secure wards of social care institutions. The discussion partners also spoke about conditions in retirement homes, which remain critical since there are practically no beds available. They also discussed unacceptable backlogs in resolving complaints. 59. 3–4 As an NPM representative, Katarina Bervar Sternad, Director of the PIC, attended December the meeting of the NPM and civil society organisations’ representatives from 26 2018 OSCE member states in Milan in Italy. The event was organised by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) from Geneva, which selected the enhancement of cooperation in the prevention of torture and ill-treatment of migrants in detention as the central theme of the event. The participants discussed various ways of enhancing regional cohesion and joint efforts to advocate migrants’ rights, raise awareness in the public about related issues and monitoring the recommendations of different institutions in this field. They exchanged opinions about the legal grounds for detaining migrants, including children, and examined ways of efficient monitoring of enforced removal and material conditions in detention rooms with the emphasis on preventing torture and other ill-treatment. 60. 12–13 Deputy Ivan Šelih and Adviser Robert Gačnik attended the second conference of December the South-East Europe NPM Network organised in Podgorica by the Montenegrin 2018 NPM in cooperation with the Council of Europe within the framework of the project, “Effective Alternatives to Immigration Detention: Learning, Sharing, Applying”. The participants focused on migration and alternatives when detaining migrants. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2018 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 27