On 18 February 2013, Law 17/2013, introducing a third amendment to the Statute of the Portuguese Ombudsman, was published in the Portuguese Official Journal.

Higher State Prosecutor Vlasta Nussdorfer took over as Human Rights Ombudsman from Dr. Zdenka Cebašek Travnik on Friday, 22 February 2013 and will start her six-year-term on Saturday.

The Secretariat of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights took part in a round-table on the protection of housing and property rights of children discussing the problems of observing the rights of children during foreclosure of the debtor's property.

On 22 January 2013, the City of Toronto Ombudswoman Fiona Crean presented the Annual Report for 2012 pursuant to section 173 (2) of the City of Toronto Act 2006 and the City of Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 3.

Parliamentary Ombudsman Petri Jääskeläinen has asked the company that takes care of on-call health centre services to consider how it could make recompense to a patient for a violation of fundamental and human rights.

In its efforts to further increase the regional impact of the IOI, the members of the IOI Board of Directors decided at their Wellington meeting in November 2012 to once again make regional subsidies available to IOI members. Institutions interested in applying for a regional subsidy have to submit their project proposal to the IOI General Secretariat by 25 February 2013.

In its 22^nd General Report the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) took a closer look at the relations of National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) with the CPT.

The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) recenlty published the first edition of its newletter in 2013. Among other activities, the Newsletter informs about the recently launched Master in  Anti-Corruption Studies (MACS).