From 16 to 18 September, IACA delivered a tailor-made training on anti-corruption and governance for 30 international participants working as investigative ombudsmen.

On 16 and 17 September the next Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly and outgoing European Ombudsman Professor Nikiforos Diamandouros, will co-host the 9^th National Seminar of the European Network of Ombudsmen. Forty National Ombudsmen from all over Europe will meet in Dublin Castle to exchange ideas and experiences in order to promote best practice among European Ombudsmen.

A new report by the Health Service Ombudsman, published on World Sepsis Day (13 September), reveals not enough is being done to save the lives of sepsis patients. 37,000 patients die of sepsis each year. The report highlights significant failings in the diagnosis and treatment of severe sepsis.

This morning, IOI Secretary General Günther Kräuter attended the official opening of this year's IOI Ombudsman Practice Training which is held by the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Laxenburg, Vienna.

The Provincial Ombudsman Sindh, Asad Ashraf Malik ordered Sindh Building Control Authority to remove a mobile phone booster antenna from a residential building to avoid health hazard to citizens and ensure compliance to law forbidding installation of antenna within 300 meters of a residential area.

The Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) failed to closely monitor a child care center after finding violations associated with children engaging in sexual behavior, the State Ombudsman concludes in a report released today.

In an interview with The Des Moines Register, Iowa Ombudsman Ruth Cooperrider said state attorneys have taken steps in the past year that strike at the heart of the Office’s independent authority.

The Office of the Ombudsman (Commission on Administrative Justice) Kenya will convene the upcoming Regional Colloquium for African Ombudsman Institutions under the theme of “Repositioning the Ombudsman: Challenges and Prospects for African Ombudsman Institutions.”