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2015-05-20Trainee Clarissa Millwisch / Head of IOI General Secretariat Ulrike Grieshofer / IOI Secretary General Günther Kräuter / IOI President John Walters / Staff IOI Secretariat Karin Wagenbauer and Ursula Bachler
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2024-09-06CY’s Committee on Social Welfare and Environment Hygiene Affairs Conducts Circuit Supervision at Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
The Committee on Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Affairs of the Control Yuan conducted a site visit at the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control on July 19, 2024. The inspection, centered on post-pandemic disease prevention, policy formulation, and the establishment of an infectious disease prevention network, aimed to protect the public’s health rights and interests.
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2024-10-10
CY issues correction to Ministry of Labor and New Taipei City Government on forced unpaid leave to foreign fishermen
An investigation conducted by Control Yuan has found that after the end of Taiwan’s neritic squid fishing season in September 2023, employers and agents flexibly adjusted fishing manpower using “consensual termination of contract” to avoid requirements of the Labor Standards Act. As a result, 64 foreign fishermen were forced to take unpaid leave, denied the three-year guarantee of work in their contracts, and not given severance pay.
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2024-10-31
NSW Ombudsman Annual Report 2023-24 tabled in Parliament today
The New South Wales (NSW) Ombudsman tabled its Annual Report 2023–24 and Child Death Review Team (CDRT) Annual Report 2023–24 in Parliament on 31 October 2024.
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2024-09-12
European Ombudsman encourages Council to assess risks around use of sponsorship by rotating presidency
The Ombudsman has encouraged the Council of the European Union to assess whether its guidance for corporate sponsorship of its rotating presidency is effective at mitigating potential conflicts of interest and reputational risks for the EU, and to explore possible measures to help mitigate these risks.
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2024-10-17
Teenage girl waited two years for mental health treatment
A teenage girl suffering ‘intense emotional meltdowns’ had to wait two years – almost six times the target – for mental health treatment. England’s Health Ombudsman is urging Government and NHS leaders to prioritise timely treatment of people experiencing poor mental health and support the NHS workforce to deliver this.
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2024-09-06
Toronto Ombudsman finds major gaps with police’s registry for vulnerable persons
On 5 September 2024, Toronto's Ombudsman released his report, An Investigation into the Toronto Police Service’s Communications About its Vulnerable Persons Registry. The TPS launched the registry in December of 2019 to allow the public to file personalized de-escalation strategies to help police officers support individuals with emotional, psychological, medical, or other physical conditions. Four years later, the Ombudsman’s investigation found that only 305 people currently have their information entered into the registry.
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2024-09-25
Vocational instructor re-instated after wrongful retirement due to payroll system error
In March 2023, an instructor from a Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) Centre complained to the Ombudsman Commission alleging wrongful retirement and termination from the Payroll System whilst still ineffective service.
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2024-09-19
Chief Ombudsman’s first investigation into official information handling by council-controlled infrastructure providers
The Chief Ombudsman’s latest self-initiated investigations into official information practices will include two council-controlled organisations for the first time. Peter Boshier has announced investigations of Auckland Transport and Wellington Water along with the Wellington City Council, Queenstown Lakes District Council and Marlborough District Council.
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2024-08-29
Report on Townsville’s Cleveland Youth Detention Centre released
The Cleveland Youth Detention Centre inspection report: Focus on separation due to staff shortages, prepared by the Inspector of Detention Services, was tabled by the Honourable Curtis Pitt MP, Speaker of the Queensland Parliament on Tuesday 27 August 2024. The report by Queensland Ombudsman, Mr Anthony Reilly makes 15 recommendations for improvement at the Cleveland Youth Detention Centre on issues including staffing levels, approval processes for separations and the provision of basic facilities in separation rooms and holding cells.
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2024-08-16
Yukon Human Rights Commission investigated for fairness
The Yukon Ombudsman has released an investigative report on three separate complaints against the Yukon Human Rights Commission (HRC). The investigation found unfairness in the organization’s operations and made eight recommendations to the HRC, and the Department of Justice combined.
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2024-09-19
Home Office is wrongly denying compensation to Windrush victims
Almost half a million pounds in compensation has been secured following investigations by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman for people wrongly denied payment by the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
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2024-09-19
Ombudsman encourages Paramount Chiefs to uphold justice and good governance
In his campaign to promote and strengthen administrative justice, accountability and good governance in Sierra Leone, the Ombudsman Tejan Ahmed Israel Jah Esq called on Paramount Chiefs in the Southern Region to uphold justice, accountability and good governance within their Districts, Chiefdoms and localities. He made this statement whilst addressing Paramount Chiefs, District Chairpersons, Mayors and other galaxy of eminent people and government functionaries at the Human Capital Development Advocacy Meeting held at the Moyamba District Council Hall.
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2024-09-25
ACRC calls for improvement in disability employment levy to ensure stress-free parental leave
To ensure disabled workers can take parental leave without undue stress, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Ryu Chul Whan) has recommended that the employer’s obligation to pay employment levies during such leave be relaxed.
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2013-05-24
Director’s contract extended for another three years
On 22 May 2013, FRA’s Management Board formally decided to extend the contract of Morten Kjaerum as Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights for another three years, with effect from 1 June 2013.
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2024-08-22
Austrian NPM publishes Annual Report 2023
The Austrian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) published the English version of its Annual Report 2023. In the year under review, the NPM carried out 505 visits, which provided a picture of the human rights situation in Austria. In addition to positive observations, numerous deficits were identified again in 2023.
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2014-02-10
Ombudsman Northern Territory - Annual Report 2008/2009 - EN
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2014-02-10
Ombudsman Northern Territory - Annual Report 2007/2008 - EN
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2014-02-10
Ombudsman Northern Territory - Annual Report 2006/2007 - EN
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2014-02-10
Ombudsman Northern Territory - Annual Report 2010/2011 - EN
