Irrigation & Power Department, Government of Sindh, paid service dues to widow of a government employee on the orders of Mr Asad Ashraf Malik, Provincial Ombudsman Sindh (Pakistan).

Premier Stephen McNeil announced today, Nov. 29, that Dwight Bishop will retire Dec. 31. Mr. Bishop has served as Nova Scotia Ombudsman since 2004.

The 40th Annual Report of the Office of the Correctional Investigator was tabled in Parliament and contains a special focus on ethno-cultural diversity in corrections. Correctional Investigator, Mr. Howard Sapers, noted that recent inmate population growth is almost exclusively driven by increases in the composition of ethnically and culturally diverse offenders

This week, Québec Ombudsperson, Ms Raymonde Saint-Germain, was elected President of the Association des Médiateurs et Ombudsmans de la Francophonie (AOMF) for a two-year term.

The Ombudsman of Spain has updated the 2012 monographic report Human Trafficking in Spain, in order to know the status of recommendations made and 71 % of the recommendations included in the Ombudsman of Spain’s report on human trafficking have been accepted.

During its annual meeting, held in New York in September 2013, the IOI Board of Directors took decisions on applications for IOI membership and is therefore delighted to welcome the new members to the IOI family.

The Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) and Penal Reform International (PRI) recently presented a new joint resource: the Detention Monitoring Tool: addressing risk factors to prevent torture and ill-treatment.

In the recent months the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights has received several complaints concerning the wage system of social care workers. The complaints referred to the fact that, as far as remuneration is concerned, social care workers are not treated in the same way as those working in the healthcare system and licenced by the Office of Health Authorisation and Administrative Procedures.