From 1 May 2013 over 180 additional publicly funded organisations will be subject to independent oversight by the Ombudsman enabling the office to examine complaints about the administrative actions of public organisations including Universities, Vocational Education Committees and the Family Support Agency, among many others.

The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) will be hosting a seminar featuring the world’s most preeminent authorities on anti-corruption from 10 to 11 July 2013 in Austria.

On 26 April 2013 Austrian Ombudsman and Secretary General of the IOI Peter Kostelka met Debbie Kohner, the new director of the Permanent Secretariat of the European Group of NHRI at his office in Vienna.

The Health Service Ombudsman has published a report that analyses the failings of the hospital complaints system in the wake of the Mid Staffordshire hospitals crisis. The Ombudsman's report shows systemic problems with NHS Hospitals' failing to listen and learn from patients.

The Annual Report of the Jordanian Ombudsman Bureau (JOB) for 2011 is now also available in English.

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Dame Julie Mellor, responded to a review, commissioned by the Department of Health in England, which has recommended a series of measures to better protect patients against cosmetic interventions that go wrong in an industry that is unregulated.

On 25 April 2013, Augustinas Normantas was appointed to the position of the head of the Seimas Ombudsmen‘s Office of the Republic of Lithuania. On the same day, Raimondas Šukys swore an oath in the Parliament and was appointed as Seimas Ombudsman.

Proprietors of areas which were put under nature conservation complain that no expropriation or compensation was given to them. The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights proposes that the Minister of Rural Development reviews the legislation.