Registration is now open for the next session of Ontario Ombudsman's training course for ombudsmen and administrative investigators, "Sharpening Your Teeth: Advanced Investigative Training for Administrative Watchdogs." The course is tailored for oversight agencies and will be held from 19 to 21 January 2015 in Toronto, Canada.

Preceding the European Parliament elections on 23 and 24 May 2014 employees of the Polish Human Rights Defender Office conducted 158 visits in polling stations, adapted to the needs of people with disabilities.

Thousands of people are still dying each year from sepsis because not enough improvements have been made by the NHS, according to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Julie Mellor.

The General Inspection Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran signed a memorandum of understanding with the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman.

The recently released winter edition of the Ombudsman Quarterly Review puts a special emphasis on the Ombudsmen's activities in the area of monitoring and inspecting places of detention under the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT).

On 29 August 2014, Secretary General Günther Kräuter welcomed a delegation of the Korean Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) to the headquarters of the IOI General Secretariat in Vienna.

In cooperation with the Council of Europe, the European Training and Research Centre (ETC) will host an International Summer Academy on the topic of “How to manage human rights and the city” in Graz, Austria, from 23 to 27 September 2014.

In a press conference, held on August 26^th 2014, the Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission (PDRC) announced the release of its first inspection report. The Bahrain Ombudsman's Standards for Visiting Prisons and Places of Detention served as a basis for the four-day long inspection.