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2020-08-12NPM visits police places of detention after overnight detentions in Warsaw
Representatives of the National Preventive Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture (KMPT) on 8 August 2020 talked to 33 people detained in connection with the events which had taken place on 7 August 2020 in Warsaw after the arrest of the activist of the "Stop Bzdurom" group.
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2025-10-24Danish Ombudsman - Thematic report 2024 Children and young people in partly closed residential institutions - EN
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2025-07-04
China - Ombudsman Hong Kong - Annual Report 2024-25 - EN
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2025-09-11
Military Ombud - Annual report - 2024/25 - EN
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2020-11-09
Virtual session on "NHRIs as preventive watchdogs"
The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) is honored to invite you to participate in a virtual session on "National human rights institutions as preventive watchdogs" organized by the UN Working Group on Business and GANHRI and held as part of the 2020 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights on 18 November 2020.
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2019-10-24
European NHRIs strengthen their work on the rights of migrants at the borders
From 9 to 11 October, ENNHRI’s Asylum and Migration Working Group met in Madrid, where representatives of 17 National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) reaffirmed the importance of collective work on migrants’ rights.
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2024-12-13
The Ombudsman’s Children’s Division has examined conditions for children and young people in the psychiatric sector
In 2023, the Ombudsman’s Children’s Division focused on children and young people in the psychiatric sector by means of a number of monitoring visits. This focus area was chosen because children and young people with a psychiatric diagnosis can be in a particularly vulnerable situation. This is especially true for children and young people who need to be hospitalised in the psychiatric sector.
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2024-12-06
DPU Advocates for Women Victims of Domestic Violence Accused of International Child Abduction
On Wednesday, 13 November, at the National Congress, the Federal Public Defenders’ Office (DPU) called for greater recognition of the plight of women who, as victims of domestic violence, are accused of international child abduction. Federal Public Defender Daniela Brauner participated in two public hearings held at the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, addressing the application of the Hague Convention in cases where Brazilian mothers return to Brazil with their children after fleeing domestic violence.
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2024-11-07
Public Services Ombudsman for Wales publishes findings of its investigation on the administration of carers’ needs assessments
On 31 October 2024, the Ombudsman published the findings of the second ‘own initiative’ investigation, which focuses on the administration of carers’ needs assessments by 4 Local Authorities in Wales – Caerphilly County Borough Council, Ceredigion County Council, Flintshire County Council and Neath Port Talbot Council.
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2024-11-15
Ararteko Research Study: Sexist Attitudes among the Youth
In October 2024, the Ararteko-Ombudsman of the Basque Country presented a research “Study on Sexist Attitudes among the Youth and Adolescent Population of the Basque Country”. The research is intended to allow a better understanding of the phenomenon of sexist attitudes among the youth and adolescence and extract a series of conclusions, to use them as a basis for recommendations to support decision-makers and improve public policies on gender equality.
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2025-05-27
China - Ombudsman Hong Kong - Annual Report 2023-24 - EN
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2025-09-11
Alberta Ombudsman - Annual Report 2022/2023 - EN
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2020-04-15
Social Care institutions are monitored through Social Media
The Seimas Ombudsman Augustinas Normantas has begun the monitoring of social care homes through social media. Having launched a private Facebook group named "A Quarantine in social care institutions," the Human Rights Division of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office started monitoring of social care institutions by providing the assistance to caregivers and collecting information on challenges with which the institutions face.
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2024-10-10
€17.9m investment in local authority halting site will benefit children and can be an example to others
The response from a Local Authority to an Ombudsman for Children’s Office investigation into living conditions for 66 children and their families at a halting site could act as a blueprint of success for other local authorities to follow.
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2025-09-11
Alberta Ombudsman - Annual Report 2023/2024 - EN
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2020-03-26
COVID-19: Who is protecting the people with disabilities?
Catalina Devandas, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, warns that little has been done to provide people with disabilities with the guidance and support needed to protect them during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, even though many of them are part of the high-risk group, today warned
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2024-09-19
In the Senate, DPU and AGU present Actions and Results of the ‘Caravan of Rights’ programme
On Tuesday, 3 September 2024, the Federal Public Defenders' Office (DPU), the Attorney General's Office (AGU), and the National Association of Federal Public Defenders (Anadef) took part in a public hearing at the Federal Senate. The session aimed to discuss and present the results of the ‘Caravan of Rights: Reconstruction of Rio Grande do Sul’ programme.
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2024-08-16
Woman repaid thousands after healthcare provider failed to properly assess and fund her mother’s care
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) is urging Integrated Care Boards (ICB) to learn from mistakes and take action to prevent other families facing unnecessary financial strain after a case investigated by the Ombudsman highlighted the issue.
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2024-08-08
Chief Nigerian Ombudsman bows out of office
On 5 July 2024, the Honourable Chief Commissioner, Public Complaints Commission, Hon. Abimbola Ayo-Yusuf has bowed out of Office in grand style after completing his statutory three years in Office.
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2024-08-09
News from the Ombudsman’s Office: July 2024
In the July 2024 issue of the News from the Latvian Ombudsman, the Office includes, among other things, the Ombudsman's opinion on decriminalisation of drug use in young people, the child's right to information on healthcare, a call for administrative and criminal liability for sexual harassment, and a study on inequalities for parents in regulated professions.