After the first meeting of the Council of the Human Rights Ombudsman (Council), Ombudsman Vlasta Nussdorfer presented the Council's tasks, orientations and composition and contribution to the functioning of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia (Ombudsman).

Expert team perfoming peer evaluation in Latvia on expert services in healthcare quality and patient safety domain. On 3 July 2018 Ombudsman Juris Jansons met with international experts to discuss the health-care system in Latvia.

El Defensor del Pueblo (e.f.), Francisco Fernández Marugán, se ha dirigido al Ministerio de Defensa para conocer los motivos por los que se está excluyendo a mujeres con tatuajes visibles con el uniforme en procesos selectivos del Ejército y ha pedido al departamento ministerial que se cuestione si puede existir discriminación.

Nottingham City Council has been told to offer a fresh schools admission hearing to a young boy who needed to move school because of “honour” based violence. The boy’s mother had applied for her son to move into Year Five at the new school, because she wanted him to attend a school that no other family members attended.

The Inspector-General of Taxation (IGT), Ali Noroozi, today confirmed he will not be seeking reappointment for a third term. Mr Noroozi has served in the role for 10 years and during this time has undertaken more than 30 reviews across a broad range of issues, including ATO debt collection, tax disputes, audits, transfer pricing, services to tax practitioners, taxpayer rights, IT upgrades and so-called ‘U-turns’.

La Defensoría de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes lanzó la campaña #MiOpiniónNoEsMenor por el derecho de las niñas, niños y adolescentes a opinar y por el deber de las y los adultos a oír.  Al detectar reiteradas persecuciones a las opiniones e ideas que expresan las y los adolescentes en las redes sociales, se propone esta campaña para circulación exclusiva en redes.

The Seimas Ombudsman Augustinas Normantas and the Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis discussed the human rights issues in Ukraine with the Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmyla Denisova. The Seimas Ombudsmen's Office together with other Lithuanian organisations implements an EU Twinning project aimed at strengthening the skills of the staff of the Ukrainian Ombudsman institution.

On 1 May 2017, the Québec Ombudsman was entrusted with handling disclosures of wrongdoings committed by or regarding a public body pursuant to the Act to facilitate the disclosure of wrongdoings relating to public bodies. This is the context for the Québec Ombudsman’s release of its first public integrity investigation conclusion.