The European Ombudsman strongly regrets the European Commission’s refusal to follow her recommendation to give greater public access to four documents related to the drawing up of proposed legislation to combat child sexual abuse.

The Ombudsman of Sint Maarten recently published the 2023-year report. In 2023 there were a total of 367 complaints handled of which 43 resulted in a report by the Ombudsman.

La Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la Ciudad de México (CDHCM) hace eco de las líneas estratégicas signadas en el Decenio Internacional de los Afrodescendientes (Reconocimiento, Justicia y Desarrollo); y el énfasis que se pone en que estas deben contemplar específicamente líneas para las mujeres.

The Office of the Ombudsman in Malawi has taken to Kasungu for two-week Mobile Accountability Clinics. The clinics are a proactive mechanism that the Office of the Ombudsman uses to take the Office to the people reaching the heart of communities in the rural areas or areas that are far from the main office.

The Ombudsman for the Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Bahrain signed a memorandum of cooperation and partnership with the Mediator of the Kingdom of Morocco, on the sidelines of the two institutions’ participation in the eleventh meeting of the Board of Directors of the Ombudsman Association of Member Countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which was held in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh.

Muhammad Sohail Rajput, the Ombudsman Sindh, presided the follow-up session of the Brand Ambassador Program on 22 July 2024 at the Secretariat of the Provincial Ombudsman Sindh with the 10 selected students as Ambassadors for Ombudsman Sindh from the Hamdard University.

British Columbia’s Ombudsperson Jay Chalke released an investigative update on 22 July 2024 assessing government’s progress implementing the sole remaining recommendation from his office’s 2016 report aimed at improving how BC’s ten correctional centres are inspected.

On 19 July 2024, Toronto’s Ombudsman Kwame Addo released an update on the work his office’s new Housing Unit has done during its first year of operation. Established in July of 2023, the Housing Unit at Ombudsman Toronto investigates and reviews the planning and delivery of the City of Toronto’s housing services, policies, and programs to make sure they are fair and uphold Torontonians’ human right to adequate housing.