The Ombudsman, Mr Jack Chan, attended an annual meeting with Legislative Council Members on 14 July 2026 to brief them on the progress and results of the Office of The Ombudsman’s work in 2025/26, with an overview of its work strategies and objectives. At the meeting, Mr Chan also exchanged views with LegCo Members on issues of mutual concern and thanked them for their support of the Office’s work.

La Presidenta de la Asociación de Defensores y Defensoras del Pueblo de la República Argentina (ADPRA) y Defensora del Pueblo de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, María Rosa Muiños, suscribió un Convenio Marco de Colaboración y Asistencia Técnica con la Federación Nacional de Personerías de Colombia (FENALPER), representada por su presidente Luis Gabriel Degiovanni Behaine, Personero de la ciudad de Montería.

Michael DeSilva, the Ombudsman for Bermuda, has submitted his Annual Report for 2025 to the Speaker of the House of Assembly in accordance with his statutory duty under the Ombudsman Act 2004. The report was tabled in the House of Assembly on 26 June 2026, and it is now available to the public.

The Provincial Ombudsman Sindh Secretariat hosted the final follow-up session and certificate distribution ceremony for the Ambassadors from Ziauddin University on 30th June 2026, marking the successful conclusion of the Ambassador Program.

During nine monitoring visits in 2025 to institutions with children, the Parliamentary Ombudsman focused on conditions for 15-17-year-olds in state and local prisons. Kindly click here to access the Ombudsman's thematic report.

A family is a step closer to getting answers to why a father from Nottingham died while in hospital after an Ombudsman investigation compelled a coroner to carry out an inquest into his death.

En 2025, l’Ararteko a engagé une réforme visant à améliorer l’organisation de l’accueil des citoyens, grâce à un modèle d’accueil à trois niveaux (accueil ou première consultation ; orientation des citoyens ; et conseil/traitement spécialisé). Ce modèle garantit un accompagnement personnalisé et de proximité aux citoyens qui se présentent à l’Ararteko et dans ses bureaux d’accueil direct.

In 2025, the Ararteko introduced a change to improve the way it organises its public services, through a three-tier model of public service delivery (initial assistance; citizen guidance; and specialist advice/processing). This model ensures personalised and accessible support for members of the public who visit the Ararteko and its citizen advice bureaus.

On 30 June 2026, the Office of the Ombudsman Punjab, in collaboration with the African Ombudsman Research Centre (AORC) and the African Ombudsman and Mediators Association (AOMA), hosted an international webinar titled "Evidence-Based Capacity Building: Strengthening African Ombudsman Practice Through Data, Learning and Institutional Innovation." The event brought together 165 participants from 35 countries and was conducted with simultaneous interpretation in French, Portuguese, and Arabic.

Good communication is essential to delivering high-quality, compassionate end of life care, says new Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman report. Government is urged to prioritise end of life care as part of its 10 Year Plan reforms by prioritising it in the roll out for a Single Patient Record and via training to support professionals to have critical conversations about patients’ prognosis and wishes.