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As in Croatia and in many other places new functions are being added
so since last November Finnish Ombudsman is also the national
preventive mechanism and human rights center was some kind of
addition three years ago and we already see a first task coming to the
national human rights institution as a whole meeting the convention
of the rights of persons with disabilities that 33 article 2 sort of
monitoring mechanism will become our common task and this is the
first task that we actually have at the level of law together.

Last year, we developed a common strategy to make sure that we are
looking at things in a strategic way and we have an overall objective
which is both better when there is implementation human rights and
rule of law as well and we have aligned our activities, I will just quickly
show a little chart that we have drawn where you see in the middle
things that both of us do. For example initiatives, statements, opinions
this often relates to legislative processes. We both do cooperation
but perhaps with slightly different audiences in particular in the
international sphere. But you also see that only we do education,
training, research and only the ombudsman deals with complaints and
inspections. So there are things in the middle and there we need to
coordinate. Not only daily basis but on weekly basis to make sure we
do not do things without knowing that the other one working on that.
And this as also where we work together quite a bit. So this clarified 3 rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTIONS
even more that the law at the level of tasks how we can work together
in an effective way.

And little more about what the human rights centre does. Here, I
have listed the task that we have directly from the law. It is all about
promotion, general monitoring and then the European international
cooperation is something that we have specifically from the law and
as the Croatian ombudsman very well described it is almost daily
information provision to the UN structure sometimes the Council of
Europe, sometimes the Fundamental Rights Agency. It is actually a lot
of work, we are selective we do not answer to everything. But when we
have some added value we have something specific to say then we do
have reports and it is a lot.

Some examples to be concrete, our first big study was on human rights
education. Finland is very proud of its good educational system. But
it doesn’t mean that we have a perfect education system for human

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