The members of the Austrian Ombudsman Board (AOB), Mr Bernhard Achitz, Mr Walter Rosenkranz and Mr Werner Amon presented on the basis of the annual report the AOB’s investigation results from 2020 and gave, on the basis of some selected complaints and their own perceptions, an insight into the work of the monitoring and human rights institution. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the AOB published its annual report in three volumes for the first time. In addition to Volume 1 ‘Monitoring of public administration’ and Volume 2 ‘Preventive human rights monitoring’, Volume 3 ‘Covid-19’ covers all those observations related to the 2020 Covid-19 measures.

The African Ombudsman and Mediators Association (AOMA) expresses concern about developments in Northern Mozambique where violence from Islamist insurgents has resulted in displacement of people, the majority of them women and children, from Palma in Cabo Delgado Province since October 2017.

L’État, tout État, est alimenté par l’affection que lui vouent les gouvernants et les gouvernés. Sans cette affection il ne saurait vivre ou survivre. Ce lien affectif est exprimé à travers la citoyenneté, qui est un exercice, qui peut être simple ou complexe, émotionnel ou raisonnable.

Lors de l’assemblée on a parlé des défis futurs et du travail accompli au cours des deux dernières années. Rafael Ribó, jusqu'à présent président du chapitre européen, passera le relais au défenseur grec, Andreas Pottakis.

The assembly discussed future challenges and the work carried out during the last two years. Rafael Ribó, until now president of the European Chapter, will hand over to the Greek Ombudsman, Andreas Pottakis.

Following his investigation into the placement of people under 65 in nursing homes, Ombudsman Peter Tyndall said that those he spoke with told him they had no option but to live in nursing homes due to a lack of support from the State.

El Yuan de Control declaró sobre la sobrecarga ilegal de vehículos pesados que circulan por las autopistas y las zonas de pesaje que no cuentan con presencia de la Policía, por lo que no se prohíbe el tránsito de estos.

On April 26, the Althingi, the Parliament of Iceland, elected Skúli Magnússon, President of the District Court of Reykjavik, as the Parliamentary Ombudsman.