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International Ombudsman Institute

Fri, 24 January 2014

Ombudsman News 03/2014

Fri, 24 January 2014

Ombudsman News 03/2014





CHRAGG Training in Tanzania

TANZANIA: Accountability, Transparency and Rule of Law – Training held in Dar-es-Salaam

The training took place from 2 to 4 January 2014 and was attended by 21 investigation officers from African Ombudsman Institutions in Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho, Nigeria and Tanzania.



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PAKISTAN: Special Report on the Challenges of Ombudsmanship released

In September 2013 the Forum of Pakistan Ombudsman held a Workshop on the Challenges of Ombudsmanship. One month later, a special report regarding the activities during those two days was released.



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SPAIN: Defensora del Pueblo visits the immigrant detention centre of Barcelona

The  Spanish Ombudsman,  Ms. Soledad Becerril, and the First Deputy Ombudsman, Francisco Fernández Marugán, visited the immigrant detention center of the Zona Franca, in Barcelona. They were accompanied by the Director General of the Police, Ignacio Cosidó, and the Government Delegate in Catalonia, Llanos de Luna.



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NAMIBIA: Delay with appeals constitute violation of human rights

After an intervention from the Ombudsman, a long-term prison inmate finally received an answer to his application to be allowed to appeal to the Supreme Court after a decade of delay.



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UK: Fifty-eight tenants reimbursed for overcharged water rates

An investigation by the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has resulted in London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham repaying a significant sum of money to 58 elderly tenants who had been overpaying for water in their homes.



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