In its efforts to further increase the regional impact of the IOI, the members of the IOI Board of Directors decided at the Annual Board Meeting in Vienna to continue the regional subsidy programme for the membership year 2014/2015.

A research by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) examines support service provision for victims of crime across the 28 EU Member States, in line with the 2012 EU Victims’ Directive and focuses not on abstract fundamental rights standards but on the final practical results.

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Service is today calling on past, present and future service users and the organisations it investigates to provide feedback on its service to help develop its service charter.

The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has recently appointed Hon. Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga as the new Chairman of the Tanzania Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG).

The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) held a symposium on „Addressing children’s vulnerabilities in detention“ in 2014 and published an outcome report which provides an overview of the context and key principles related to children in conflict with the law and deprived of their liberty, as well as the main risk factors and situations which need to be addressed by NPMs.

A complainant approached the Provincial Ombudsman of Sindh, Mr. Asad Ashraf Malik, with the complaint that his father suffered from brain tumor and his three brothers were patients of Hepatitis “B”.

On behalf of IOI Europe, the Ombudsman and Regional President Peter Tyndall issued a "Statement of Solidarity with France".

On the intervention of the Federal Ombudsman of Pakistan, Mr. M. Salman Faruqui, the employees of the Public Works Department have received their three months salary.