Thousands of people are still dying each year from sepsis because not enough improvements have been made by the NHS, according to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Julie Mellor.

The General Inspection Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran signed a memorandum of understanding with the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman.

The recently released winter edition of the Ombudsman Quarterly Review puts a special emphasis on the Ombudsmen's activities in the area of monitoring and inspecting places of detention under the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

On 29 August 2014, Secretary General Günther Kräuter welcomed a delegation of the Korean Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) to the headquarters of the IOI General Secretariat in Vienna.

In cooperation with the Council of Europe, the European Training and Research Centre (ETC) will host an International Summer Academy on the topic of “How to manage human rights and the city” in Graz, Austria, from 23 to 27 September 2014.

In a press conference, held on August 26^th 2014, the Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission (PDRC) announced the release of its first inspection report. The Bahrain Ombudsman's Standards for Visiting Prisons and Places of Detention served as a basis for the four-day long inspection.

Ombudsman appeal following publication of written complaints in the NHS for 2013/14 by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

The Defender was approached by a complainant requesting to investigate the circumstances of the complainant's stay in a police cell at the Břeclav District Police Department.