An international conference with the participation of Turkic ombudsmen was held in Hungary

         Deputy Director of the National Centre for Human Rights Alua Nadirkulova took part in the international conference organized by the Office of the Ombudsman of Hungary to strengthen cooperation with the Ombudsmen of Turkic States.

         During the conference Alua Nadirkulova, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Human Rights, made a presentation on the work conducted by the human rights institution to review complaints of citizens and monitoring of closed institutions, the ongoing constitutional reforms, the adopted Constitutional Acts on the Commissioner for Human Rights and the Constitutional Court, legislative amendments and measures taken by the state to detect, prevent, suppress and disclose torture.

         In addition, A. Nadirkulova spoke about the upcoming assessment of the potential of the national human rights institution by experts of the Asia Pacific Forum together with the Regional representations of UNDP and OHCHR, which will be held in June this year to be accredited by the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI).

         The participants of the event highly appreciated the reforms carried out in Kazakhstan and, in their turn, the activities of the Office of the Ombudsman were positively assessed.

         The Ombudsmen of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan also spoke about their activities.

         At the end, the participants exchanged views and discussed opportunities for further joint cooperation.