The Queensland Parliament has recently passed legislation to return oversight of the state’s child safety complaints system to the Queensland Ombudsman. 

The City of Toronto Ombudsman, Fiona Crean, announced that Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCH) has accepted all of her findings and recommendations following an investigation into its human resource policies and practices.

On 13 May 2014 Chairperson of Federacion Iberoamericana de Ombudsman (FIO) Dr. Raúl Plascencia spoke at the Control Yuan (CY) plenary meeting and received the Control Yuan First Grade Medal from CY President Mr. Wang Chien-shien.

The International Ombudsman Institute is deeply concerned about the recent abduction of more than 200 school girls in Nigeria.

The Protector of Citizens (Ombudsman) of the Republic of Serbia, Saša Janković, published the office’s Annual Report for 2013 in English. In the reporting period, the Protector of Citizens acted upon 5,042 complaints.

On 6 May 2014, Victor Ciorbea was sworn in as People’s Advocate (Ombudsman) of Romania.

From 7 until 9 May 2014, the Polish Human Rights Defender, Prof. Irena Lipowicz hosted a visit of the Chief Ombudsman of the Republic of Turkey, Mr Mehmet Nihat Ömeroğlu.

On 28 and 29 April, a conference on networking between Ombudsman offices in member states of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) was held in Islamabad.