Ce vendredi 20 octobre 2017, le Médiateur, Marc BERTRAND, entouré de ses collègues médiateurs fédéraux, flamand, de la Communauté germanophone et des Pensions, a participé à une rencontre avec le Parlement BENELUX. A cette occasion, le Président, M. André POSTEMA, accompagné de la Vice-Présidente, Mme Maya DETIEGE et de la Secrétaire générale, Mme Christine BOGAERT, ont souhaité cette année encore, inviter les Ombudsmans et Médiateurs pour avoir un échange de vue et un aperçu des problèmes transfrontaliers.

Local authorities are being reminded about the need to house homeless families appropriately, following two separate investigations into the London Borough of Redbridge by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Poverty is an enemy of human rights and states are successful to the extent on how much they look after the most vulnerable, said Ombudswoman Lora Vidović at the opening of the conference on energy poverty, that she organised on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and Social Exclusion. The participants welcomed the new measures announced by the representative of the Ministry of Environment and Energy, Dean Smolar.

El día 30 de marzo de 2015 en el Complejo Penitenciario I de Ezeiza una persona privada de la libertad habría sido torturada por dos agentes del Servicio Penitenciario Federal. La Procuración Penitenciaria de la Nación presentó una denuncia al respecto, la cual fue llevada adelante por la Fiscalía y la Procuraduría de Violencia Institucional (Procuvin).

The Ombudsman tabled his 2016/2017 Annual Report in Parliament on 18 October 2017. The Report highlights that complaints about state and local government continue to rise significantly; there has been an increase of 14% in complaints made to the Ombudsman’s Office this financial year. Applications for external reviews of determinations made under the Freedom of Information Act 1991 went up 44%.

 

The Chancellor of Justice, Ülle Madise, addressed the Constitutional Committee of the Riigikogu to initiate changing the laws that in their current wording do not allow sufficiently preventing or restraining corruption in cities and rural municipalities.

Con el objetivo de abordar la problemática de la tortura ejercida en centros de detención y prevenir este tipo de prácticas, se realizó la Jornada Internacional “Experiencias y Mejores Prácticas en la Prevención de la Tortura en el Cono Sur” durante los días 4 y 5 de octubre de 2017.

On 17 October 2017 the IOI Executive Committee (ExCom) held its first mid-term meeting by electronic means. In a videoconference the members of the Executive Committee discussed the progress of projects decided and approved by the IOI Board of Directors in Vienna in April 2017.