The Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights informs about the draft legislation on complaints and announcements of general interest, which will involve the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights.

A young man became a victim twice ― of the crime committed against him and also of the service he received from the Youth Offending Team and the Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council. Both failed to handle the case properly.

On 12 July 2013, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Valeriya Lutkovska and the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir Lukin, met in Moscow to discuss possible ways of cooperation.

The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has published its annual report and accounts for 2012- 2013. In a year of unprecedented change, the focus has been to raise standards within the LGO and of the complaints system and public services.

Ontario Ombudsman André Marin today urged the provincial government to make better use of his "multipurpose" office in untapped areas of oversight, and address "unfinished business" arising from his recent investigations.

On 24 June 2013, the Defender of Rights sent a report on the situation of migrant Roma in France and the implementation of the departmental circular related to “the implementation and the follow-up of operations of evictions from illegal camps” to the French Prime Minister.

On 18 June 2013 Mrs Grace Phiri, Investigations Officer at the Zambian Commission for Investigation for 16 years, passed away in Paris on her way to the AOMA Exco Meeting in Burkina Faso. She was travelling with the Investigator General of Zambia, Mrs. Caroline Sokoni.

The European Ombudsman, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, has called on the European Commission to follow the OECD principles for transparency and integrity in lobbying when revising the "Transparency Register".