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fairly limited resources to tackle themes and to increase knowledge
so what we do is look at international norms sort of comparative, the
domestic system are put together in thematic files that we can then
use for different purposes, for training and education, for information
provision and we have been looking at rights of elderly. Very big
increase and improvement took place in Finland about how to provide
proper care for the elderly in the same way with the disabled and the
list continues.

If I would describe the human rights center with one word is
“cooperation”. We work with everybody and it takes a lot of time but
it also the fun part of it because you meet different groups and get
different ideas so just last week we were all up in Lapland for two days
with all researches that were interested in some ways in human rights
fundamental rights and we started a network that will make sure that
all the research that happens in Finland becomes available to the
center and we will help to publicize that and of course that gives us
great amount of information about what’s happening and how things
are being implemented.
Finally I should mention the international European cooperation but I
do not have much to add what the Croatian ombudsman was saying.
We work very much with the European network and I am very happy
to see that it is getting stronger and there are more resources and I 3 rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTIONS
think this will be a growing work for us but we also get a lot out of it.
We learned from the Danish colleagues who have a huge human rights
center. We learned from the Germans and we are able to jump to
different levels very quickly when we see how they have being tackling
new emerging issues for example business and human rights. So this
is really it is not just nice but also very beneficial.
And for the other bodies I’ve already mentioned and then my last
point is some reflections before the discussion can really start going.
So overall we think the model works, it is a positive experience, and
it is perhaps not perfect I’ve already mentioned the balance I think
the balance should be maybe 20% for the promotion but we will get
there eventually. Ombudsman is 95 we are 3, 5 you cannot expect us
to be at the same level yet but we are working out. So again echoing
the Croatian example the promotion is difficult because you need
different skills then usually and you need to be more creative and

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