IOI | Meeting with the Director of the Permanent Secretariat of the European Group of NHRI

On 26 April 2013 Austrian Ombudsman and Secretary General of the IOI Peter Kostelka met Debbie Kohner, the new director of the Permanent Secretariat of the European Group of National Human Rights Institutions at his office in Vienna. The Secretariat will coordinate 40 Human Rights Institutions all over Europe and cooperate with the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of NHRIs, the UN, the Council of Europe, the institutions of the European Union, the OSCE and other regional partners. The main focus was the experiences with and expectations of the European Group, both from the Austrian and IOI perspective.