New data published today has revealed that since April this year the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has upheld hundreds more complaints than in previous years.

A complainant approached the Provincial Ombudsman of Sindh, Mr. Asad Ashraf Malik, stating that his father was admitted in the Urology Department of the Civil Hospital, Dadu for dialysis. Due to frequent power break down, the Hospital management was required to operate a power generator for alternate electricity supply to the Hospital and particularly for dialysis patients.

The Northern Ireland Ombudsman and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission entered into a Service Level Agreement in October 2012 for the purposes of a joint project to develop human rights based approach to ombudsmen investigations.

2014 marked 30 years of the Office of the Ombudsman in Ireland. As part of this anniversary, the Ombudsman's Office co-hosted a conference with the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) on the topic of “Held to Account: Responsibility and Accountability in the Public Service”. Former IOI President, Dame Beverley Wakem, and newly elected second  IOI Vicepresident and Ombudsman of Ireland, Peter Tyndall, were among the speakers.

Ontario Ombudsman André Marin called on the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services to crack the pervasive “code of silence” under which some guards in the province’s correctional institutions use excessive force against inmates and conspire to cover it up.

The Ombudsman Office organized a two-day workshop titled "Investigating Serious Incidents". The workshop was held at the Office's headquarters in the Seef area and was conducted by Pauline McCabe, the former Prisoner Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, and Clare McVeigh, a Senior Investigators in Northern Ireland.

A celebration of the 25^th year from the adoption of the Convention on the rights of the child was hosted by UNICEF in cooperation with the Ombudsman in Skopje. At the celebration the new interactive online game about the Convention on the rights of the child, which was produced by UNICEF, was promoted. Through this game children can learn about their rights and the mechanisms for their protection.

The Ombudsman, Ms Connie Lau, declared today a direct investigation into the Administration’s implementation of the policy formulated in 2007 on provision of special transport services to persons with disabilities who cannot use public transport, and any measures against unauthorised operations of rehabilitation transport services to protect the safety and interests of persons with disabilities.