En el Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer, la Defensoría del Pueblo porteña realizó una intervención callejera en Perú y Diagonal Sur y en Florida y Corrientes para distribuir un periódico que busca visibilizar y prevenir la violencia machista.

Several applications for IOI membership have been accepted by the IOI Board of Directors at its last meeting held prior to the 11th IOI World Conference in Bangkok in November 2016. The IOI extends a warm welcome to its new members!

Niall Muldoon, Ombudsman for Children, highlighted the need for the educational sector to be sufficiently agile and to adapt to the individual needs of each child following the launch of the Office’s recent “Education In Focus” report.

The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights declared this thesis during a round table "Personal identification of police officers and national guards as protection against arbitrary behavior: problems and solutions" which was held on 15 November 2016, at the Ombudsman's Office.

 

IOI Secretary General Günther Kräuter participated at an expert meeting on strengthening independence of national human rights institutions (NHRIs) in the OSCE region,which was held in Warsaw from 28 to 29 November 2016.

In a regional meeting held prior to the 11th IOI World Conference in Bangkok in November 2016, the IOI’s Caribbean and Latin American Region elected Ms Nilda Arduin (Ombudsman Sint Maarten) as the new Regional President.

The International Conference of Information Commissioners (ICIC2017) will be jointly hosted by the UK Information Commissioner and the Scottish Information Commissioner and held in Manchester from 20 – 21 September 2017.

The Office of the Ombudsman New Zealand has published the Ombudsman Quarterly Review – Spring 2016. Follow this news item to read more about the Ombudsman’s work and most recent projects.