On Thursday, 2 March 2023, the Seimas Ombudsperson Erika Leonaitė participated in a meeting with the President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania and judges, who were presented with conducted research on the Aarhus Convention and the right to receive information about the environment, to participate in decision-making as well as the right to apply to courts on environmental matters established therein.

 

El Defensor del Pueblo, Gabriel Savino, explicó que se busca visibilizar una problemática que afecta a niñas, niños y adolescentes y sobre la que es muy importante actuar de manera preventiva.

On 10 March 2023, Disability Rights Watch Board Chairperson, Hon. Joseph Munsanje, paid a courtesy call on the Public Protector in order to discuss matters relating to the implementation of the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding.

Ensuring that citizens and children are involved in decisions that affect them. Upholding fundamental (children’s) rights in cases of evictions and migration. The question of whether (and, if so, how) the government is learning from experiences in its compensation programmes. These are just some of the issues from the Ombuds Agenda 2023 on which the National Ombudsman, the Ombudsman for Children and the Ombudsman for Veterans will be focusing particular attention this year.

The Commissioner for Human Rights, Marcin Wiącek, met with the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, who was on an official visit to Poland.

The annual seminar of the Office of The Ombudsman, which has been suspended for three years due to the epidemic, just resumed on 10 March at the Environmental Academy of the Environmental Protection Department (“EPD”).

Les hacemos llegar el 62. Reporte Internacional de “Derechos Humanos en Perspectiva Internacional” elaborado por el Programa de Observación y Asistencia para el Fortalecimiento de las Defensorías del Pueblo, que forma parte de la Unidad de Política Institucional de la Defensoría del Pueblo de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Argentina).

On Wednesday 8 March, International Women’s Day, the IOI President Chris Field PSM issued a statement noting that the IOI recognizes and celebrates the exceptional women who lead, and all those women who work for, offices of the Ombudsman, Public Defenders, Mediators and other human rights institutions around the world.