On Monday, 2 December 2013, Mr Peter Tyndall was appointed Ireland’s Ombudsman and Information Commissioner. Mr Tyndall received his warrant of appointment from President Michael D. Higgins at a ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin.

In light of Peter Tyndall’s departure to take up the post of Irish Ombudsman and Information Commissioner, the National Assembly for Wales has appointed Professor Margaret Griffiths as Acting Public Services Ombudsman for Wales. The National Assembly for Wales will now conduct a full and open recruitment process to appoint a permanent successor to Peter Tyndall.

On 3 December 2013, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) presents its fundamental rights-based police training manual at the International Conference on Human Rights Education and Training for the Civil and Public Service in Dublin, Ireland. This training manual seeks to help foster a relationship of trust between police and society as a whole by integrating human rights considerations into police training.

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.