IV. International Conference of Eurasian Ombudsman Institutions

The Eurasian Ombudsman institutions held their annual international conference on 17 November 2020, which was organized online due to the coronavirus pandemic.

At the high-level meeting, discussions were held about the implementation experience on both the national and international levels gained in the recent years on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the declaration of the European Convention on Human Rights, furthermore, the new realities of the human rights dimension related to the lessons learnt from the pandemic were analysed by the participants. The event was opened by High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana Nikolayevna Moskalkova and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. The Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights also participated in the conference.