Pakistan is one of the countries in the Asian Region to have taken the initiative to establish institutional arrangements for tackling Women & Children related issues.

Invited by the national coordinator of regional Italian defenders and the defender of the region of Tuscany, Lucia Franchini, the Catalan Ombudsman Rafael Ribó, spoke before the Italian Parliament on the occasion of the presentation of the first Annual Joint Report that gathers up the work made by each region or autonomous province defender.

The 41st Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator was tabled in Parliament on 08 October 2014. The report contains a special focus on safe and timely community reintegration of federally sentenced offenders.

Jim Martin, the Ombudsman, publishes his annual complaints report for 2013/14 about the local government sector today.

The Office of the Queensland Ombudsman has halved the time taken to finalise complaints, according to the 2012-13 annual report.

The Ombudsman, Soledad Becerril, has sent a study "Telecommunications: citizens’ needs and demands", to the Spanish Parliament which aims to improve the Government's monitoring of the operators' behaviour and transparency in providing the service, pricing, customer service, advertising and contracts.

The Public Protector, Adv. Thuli Madonsela, hosted her Swedish counterpart, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ms. Elisabet Fura, on 07 October 2014 during a roundtable discussion on the role of the Ombudsman in Pretoria.

A complainant approached the Ombudsman of Sindh regarding ash emissions from a boiler of a nearby sugar mill that polluted the atmosphere.