In order to identify best practices on protection services for unaccompanied minors in Europe, the Ombudsman for the Basque Country needs the support and cooperation of other European Ombudsman institutions. The Basque Ombudsman has prepared a questionnaire which can be answered in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. The Basque Ombudsman kindly asks the European Ombudsman institutions to answer this questionnaire by 8 November 2019.

La Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación Argentina (PPN) brindará una nueva jornada de capacitación con la finalidad de fomentar el cumplimiento del Protocolo de Estambul. El taller, declarado de Interés Provincial por la Cámara de Representantes, se realizará en la provincia de Misiones donde se mantendrán reuniones con miembros del Comité Provincial para Prevención de la Tortura.

The Azerbaijani Ombudsman organizes regular meetings and public awareness campaigns with different groups of population including minorities, local and religious communities in different regions of the country, learning their problems and taking necessary measures in resolving them, said Zaur Valimammadli, the chief of the international relations department of the Ombudsman Institution, at the High-Level Conference devoted to the 25th anniversary of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) in Paris, France.

Le Défenseur des droits de la France est intervenu à Genève, lundi 23 septembre, lors de la pré-session relative à l’examen du rapport initial de la France sur la Convention internationale des droits des personnes handicapées (CIDPH) organisée par le Comité des droits des personnes handicapées de l’ONU.

If you are old, chances are you have been discriminated against. It is so common in fact that, across the EU, over 40% of Europeans feel that discrimination towards older people is widespread in their country. Marking International Day for Older People, FRA calls on EU institutions and Member States to fully respect the rights of older people.

In June, the national preventive mechanism (NPM) of Slovenia conducted unannounced content-specific visits of four institutions and several residential groups providing education programmes for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders. On several occasions during its previous visits, the NPM had found that the institutions had different rules of behaviour and conduct and procedures for taking educational measures in the event of their violation. Therefore it decided to examine the situation.

Du 03 au 09 septembre 2019, une semaine durant, les collaborateurs de l’institution du Médiateur de la République, ont travaillé avec les experts du bureau de l’Ombudsman de Turquie et ceux du Ministère de la justice sur différents modules. Sept modules ont été dispensés au cours de cet atelier.

Dutch National Ombudsman Reinier Van Zutphen invites to the next Poldershop, which will take place in The Hague on Friday, 1 November 2019. This edition of the Poldershop is about how Ombudsman assess the actions of the government? On what basis do they reach their decisions?