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2013-06-17Control Yuan holds workshop on protecting women’s rights
The Control Yuan (CY) held the 2013 workshop on protecting women’s rights on 7 June 2013. The workshop was attended by 320 participants from women’s groups, government organizations, and academia. Representatives of the relevant Executive Yuan ministries were also on hand to answer questions posed by the participants.
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2013-08-07
Catalan Ombudsman calls for action to guarantee right of children to adequate food
Catalan Ombudsman Rafael Ribó submitted a report on “Child malnutrition in Catalonia”, in which he alleges that - according to the ICS diagnostic codes of June 2013 - 50,000 children have food deprivation and 750 suffer from malnutrition and poverty and calls for urgent Government action to guarantee the right of children to adequate food.
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2013-08-30
Ombudsman on financing needs of inmates in psychiatric institutions
With little money to spend, inmates in residential institutions are compelled to be “creative” – found Ombudsman Máté Szabó in his recent report. The sum of the spending money which inmates receive remained the same, although prices of the most preferred consumer goods, had increased many times. As a consequence, inmates are compelled to barter among themselves.
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2013-09-05
Ombudsman proposes amendment of regulation on nationality self-government election
There is a risk of electoral abuse at the nationality self-government election – the Ombudsman proposes the amendment of the relevant regulation. Taking into account the census data in certain localities means that the nationality communities may not be able to form a local government – concluded Ombudsman Máté Szabó.
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2013-10-23
Child death review team annual report 2012
The NSW Child Death Review Team’s Annual Report for 2012 was tabled in Parliament today by the Team’s Convenor, the NSW Ombudsman. The report examines the deaths of 493 children registered in NSW in 2012. ‘The rate of child deaths is the lowest since the Team began in 1996,’ said the Ombudsman, Bruce Barbour.
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2013-10-29
Ombudsman calls for measures against racist violence
The Greek Ombudsman calls for immediate and drastic measures against racist violence. The pronounced surge in racist violence, the impunity the perpetrators enjoy, and the overall negligence of the state authorities in charge of such matters undermine social cohesion and the foundations of the rule of law.
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2014-01-08
CHRAGG commemorates 6th Human Rights Day and ethnic anniversary
On 10 December 2013, Tanzania commemorated the sixth Human Rights day and Ethics anniversary through which The Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) took a leading role.
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2014-02-07
Catalan Ombudsman asks the year 2014 to be a turning point in social policies
The Catalan Ombudsman, Rafael Ribó, who has handed in the Annual Report 2013, has underlined the need to protect social policies, the defence of which has led to several actions carried out by the institution.
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2013-12-19
Conference on Immigration Detention
The Council of Europe organised a conference on the detention of immigrants in Europe in co-operation with the United Kingdom’s national preventive mechanism against torture. The conference was held on 21-22 November 2013 in order to establish common concerns and to develop minimum standards on the basis of a comprehensive exchange of experience and best practice.
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2014-03-05
EU-wide survey on violence against women
Violence against women undermines women’s core fundamental rights such as dignity, access to justice and gender equality. For example, one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15; one in five women has experienced stalking; every second woman has been confronted with one or more forms of sexual harassment.
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2014-02-21
Veterans Independence Program Review
On 18 February 2014 the Office of the Veterans Ombudsman released its Review of the Support Provided by Veterans Affairs Canada through its Veterans Independence Program.
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2014-02-26
Complaints resolved and received by the Ombudsman set new records
Not one complaint had been pending for longer than a year at the office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland at the end of 2013. The number of incoming complaints during the year was again a record, over 5,000.
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2014-03-20
Austerity measures must not affect the fundamental rights of citizens
In her speech at the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions of the United Nations, the Defensora del Pueblo, Soledad Becerril, stressed that austerity measures must not affect the fundamental rights of citizens.
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2014-04-04
Ombudsman Institutions and Open Government on 16 April 2014
On Wednesday, 16 April 2014, a webinar on the role of Ombudsman institutions in advancing open government will take place and the IOI kindly invites all of its member institutions to join the webinar between 10 and 11 a.m. EST. The webinar is sponsored by Open Government Partnership (OGP), the World Bank Institute and the IOI and will aim to discuss the opportunities for Ombudsman offices to engage in their respective countries’ OGP processes.
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2014-04-18
Successful Webinar on Ombudsman and Open Government
The webinar was sponsored by Open Government Partnership (OGP), the World Bank Institute and the IOI and aimed to discuss the opportunities for Ombudsman offices to engage in their respective countries’ OGP processes. It is the first webinar of the OGP Webinar Series with a focus on Ombudsman.
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2014-07-16
APT publishes Annual Report 2013
In its 2013 Annual Report, the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) is pleased to inform that States continued to abide by their legal obligation to protect persons deprived of their liberty and that the APT continued to pave the way towards a world without torture, without degrading treatment, a world in which the dignity and rights of persons deprived of their liberty are respected. The English, French and Spanish versions of the report are available here.
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2014-10-21
Ombudsman releases Annual Report 2013
The Annual Report of 2013 summarizes the institution's performance between 01 January 2013 to 31 December 2013 and is structured based on the constitutional mission of the Ombudsperson: protection, monitoring and promotion of human rights and freedoms.
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2014-12-16
Being trans in the EU - comparative analysis of the EU LGBT survey data
Trans persons, or those whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from the sex assigned them at birth, face frequent discrimination, harassment and violence across the European Union (EU) today. A report published by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) examines issues of equal treatment and discrimination and analyses data on the experiences of trans respondents from the EU LGBT survey.
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2015-02-11
Ombudsman’s staff members participated in the round table on the elimination of domestic violence against women
Ombudsman’s staff members participated in a round table where the final report on a survey studying the features and causes of Domestic Violence (DV) against women in Azerbaijan was presented to the corresponding authorities and the public. The representatives of the Ministry of Health, Public Health and Reforms Center of Azerbaijan, the Office of the Ombudsman and the State Committee for Family, Women and Child Issues participated at this event.
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2015-03-18
Administrations accepted 72% of Ombudsman’s recommendations
Ombudsman Becerril presented the institution’s Annual Report for 2014. The Office received 23,186 and made 467 recommendations, 72% of which were accepted by the public administration.
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