The Office of the Ombudsman of Sint Maarten will host the 7^th Biennial Conference of the Caribbean Ombudsman Association (CAROA), to be held on Sint Maarten from 5 to 9 May 2013.

Hungarian Commissioner for Fundamental Rights, Professor Máté Szabó, delivered a speech on the Hungarian ombudsman system at the Control Yuan plenary meeting. To learn more about Control Yuan, Dr. Szabó furthermore exchanged ideas with members of Control Yuan.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of a workshop organized by the Ombudsman Bureau in cooperation with the World Bank on “Enhancing the Cooperation Framework and Coordination with the Public Administration,” Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour stressed the important role of the Ombudsman Bureau in entrenching the values of integrity, transparency, justice and equality. 

Disparities in opportunities and outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal offenders continue to widen, finds a new report issued by the Correctional Investigator of Canada.

The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Ms Valeriya Lutkovska and the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR/OSCE) Mr Janez Lenarcic signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.

Last year the number of foreign children entering Hungary illegally and unaccompanied by parents or adults significantly increased. The ombudsman suggests clarification of the laws setting out the work of police and the immigration authority so that the children’s rights of minors regardless of their citizenship can be enforced.

The New South Wales (NSW) Ombudsman Bruce Barbour tabled a special report in Parliament on 28 February 2013 on his office’s monitoring of the police investigation into the death of a Brazilian student.